Property tax assessments are going up fast in some Santa Clara County cities and major tech companies are a reason for optimism, despite volatility in the commercial real estate market.

Santa Clara County’s tax roll saw a 6.6% increase ... A property’s assessed value determines the property tax owed on it each year. In California, because of Proposition 13, assessed values ...

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors late on Tuesday afternoon rejected a ban on artifical turf. The ban would have applied to all county-owned property and could have prevented the ...

Some Santa Clara County leaders are looking to ban artificial turf as they believe natural grass fields are physically and ...

“(It’s) no fair taking the largest sales tax paying population … here in San Jose and Santa Clara County and shipping that money, for example, to San Francisco to support the fiscal cliff.