Milpitas (2000 population: 62,698) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, USA. Milpitas is normally considered to become the little northern suburb of San Jose. These are placed sustaining San Jose to its south & Fremont to its north, at a eastern prevent of Highway 237 and near a southern finishes of Interstates 680 and 880. By owning Alameda County bordering directly on the north, Milpitas sits in the extreme northeast segment of the South Bay, bordering the East Bay and Fremont. Milpitas is likewise placed in a "Silicon Valley", a area of "hi-tech" computer businesses & industries. A corporate headquarters of Maxtor, PalmOne, LSI Logic, Solectron and Adaptec sit within a industrial zones of Milpitas.

A title Milpitas is the plural diminutive of milpa, a Mexican Spanish word for "corn field," which is a word dervied from either Nahuatl milli, meaning "agricultural field" & pan. pregnant "on." A title Milpitas literally means "little cornfields," reflecting a agricultural background of the region. the title was originally given to a rancho, but a title was late applied to the entire front yard.

History
Milpitas was foremost inhabited per Tamyen (likewise spelled Thomien, Tamien, Thamien, or even Tamiayn), the triblet of the Ohlone Indians who experienced resided in the San Francisco Bay Area for thousands of years. the Ohlone Indians lived a traditional life according to everyday hunting and gathering. It sleep within various villages in modern-contemporary Milpitas, including web sites underneath what come at present a Elmwood Correctional Facility, a Calvary Assembly of God Church, & Higuera Adobe Park.⁴

When you took a Spanish expeditions of the late 1700s, many missions were founded in the San Francisco Bay Area. In a period of time of the mission period, Milpitas was simply an unidentified area that served as a intersection between Mission San José de Guadalupe in modern-day Fremont and Mission Santa Clara de Asis, now on the Santa Clara University’s campus. When a Mexican government took across a brobdingnagian missions lands & distributed a babies among the Californios (Mexican pioneers living in California), the brief however lively "rancho" time began. A land around modern-contemporary Milpitas was divided between a 4,457.66-acre (18.Cypher kilometer²) Rancho Milpitas & a 4,394-acre (17.Eight kilometre²) Rancho Tularcitos. [http://milpitashistory.org/home/] José Higuerthe was granted Rancho Tularcitos, when José María Alviso occupied Rancho Milpitas (A latter is at present known as fallowing a lyceum within sou'-east Milpitas.). Nevertheless, ascribable Alviso's difficulty securing his claims on a Rancho Milpitas property, lot of his land was either swindled from either the Alviso personal or even got to exist as quickly sold to Western settlers. Each landholder got built Spanish-style adobes on their properties. Now, a adobes come however existent & come a oldest structures inside Milpitas. Higuera Adobe, at present inside Higuera Adobe Park, is around fairly skillful trouble [http://www.milpitashistory.org/higuera/higuera.html], however a tumble-down Alviso Adobe is presently existence repaired per City of Milpitas. Alviso Adobecome Park is scheduled to be opened two or three years late, & planners st& proposed to convert it into an training museum by having historic things, trees, buildings, and documents.

In the 1850s, heavy many Americans of English, German, and Irish descent arrived to farm a fertile lands of Milpitas. A Burnett, Rose, Dempsey, Jacklin, Trimble, Ayer, Parks, Wool, Swell, Minnis, & Evans come among a early settlers of Milpitas. ¹ (Today numerous schools, streets, & parks develop been known as inside honor one families.) These early settlers farmed a l& and install several businesses in a division of the old Oakland-San Jose Highway, which before long became called the "Midtown" territory. Eventually an additional inflow of immigration come in a 1870s & Eighties when Portuguese cropper from either the Azores came to farm a Milpitas hillsides. Numerous of the Azoreans got such locally easily-known family name prefer Coelho, Covo, Mattos, Nunes, Spangler, Serpa, & Silva. Local legend retells that when you took the late 1800s, there was a hard sentiment for the town to exist as known as Penitencia, when a local creek that diarrhea through the Midtown region. But, a post professional clerk, Joseph Weller, opposed the city's appellative to Penitencia because he disliked with his hometown to exist as known as when what he thought was the nigh homonym to "penitentiary." Instead of finding Penitencia, he selected a title Milpitas, which Swell got from either a title of Alviso's property, Rancho Milpitas. Since so, "Milpitas" became the popularly utilized title in the town & has since stuck in. [http://milpitashistory.org/weller/wellerpalm.html]

In the early 1900s, Milpitas served as a popular pull-off for traveller on the old Oakland–San Jose Highway. One of a best known of Milpitas' eating place was a Kozy Kitchen that was do per Carlos personal. (Kozy Kitchen was recently demolished around 1999 whilst Carlos closed a eating house. [http://www.milpitashistory.org/kozykitchen/kozykitchen.html].) When late when the Fifties, Milpitas was exclusively the rural town of 400 population world health organization walked a mere of these or even deuce bars to act.

In January 26, 1954, Milpitas was incorporated as a city. But, the fresh formed city shortly faced what a residents considered a good threat to the city's culture & heritage. Whilst San Jose attempted to annex Milpitas, the "Milpitas Minutemen" were quickly organized to oppose annexation & keep Milpitas independent. About completely Milpitas residents voted "No" to annexation on a 1961 election because of vigorous campaigns that got stirred higher the town. In a Sixties, a city approved the construction of the Calaveras flypast. Once at a junction by using the Union Pacific railroad, Calaveras Boulevard had a bridge passing across a railroads fallowing the construction was completed. Possibly though a serious side was that local residents may okay, cause above a railroads forswearing waiting for even minutes whilst a train passed, the bad side was that several historic buildings & web sites got to become either moved or demolished. (Paragraph source) ²

Starting in the Fifties & accelerating in the Sixties & Seventies, massive residential & searching development took place. Farml& inside american Milpitwhen quickly disappeared as high-hi-tech industries and residential developments originate. Before long, a rural town of Milpitas suddenly observed itself as a bustling San Jose suburb. Around the mere Thirty years' total of instance, a people soured decade days from either astir 6,500 around 1970 to 62,698 within 2000. Because a high-hi-tech computer industries increased labor require was met within prominent section by skilled workers from either China, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, and a Philippines, the percentage of Asian American residents skyrocketed from 12% of the people witharound 1980, to 37% around 1990, & boomed to 51% in 2000. [http://www.census.gov/]

In the early 2000s, Milpitas light rail transit system station was added, making it the northeasternmost lightly rail destination in the vicinity. In January 26, 2004, a city celebrated its Fiftieth day of remembrance of incorporation & issued the book Milpitas: 5 Dynamic Decades to commemorate Fifty years of Milpitas' history as a occupy, exciting suburbia. When a recent 2004 Milpitas elections, previous realty professional Debbie Giordano was elective City Councillor, & Jose "Joe" Esteves was reelected mayor. In a fall of 2004, a city with success realigned the South Bay Aqueduct & improved sidewalks, bike lanes, and drainage ditches in Piedmont Road. a welcome plaque is besides attend become constructed at the intersections of Landess & Piedmont this summertime. [http://www.milpitaspost.com/]

Geography
Milpitas is placed at 37°26'Little phoebe" North, 121°53'42" West (37.434586, -121.895059). Milpitas lies in the northeastern corner of the Santa Clara Valley, which is south of San Francisco. [http://www.topozone.com/] [http://www.mapquest.com/]. Milpitas is typically considered to exist as the San Jose suburb in the South Bay, a term utilized to denote a southern a portion of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the number front yard of 35.Three km² (13.6 mi²). 35.Ace kilometer² (Baker's dozen.Six mi²) of these are l& and Cipher.Two klick² (Cypher.One mi²) of these are water supply. A sum vicinity is Cipher.44% water system.

A median elevation of Milpitas is Nineteen feet (6 m). At Piedmont Road, Evans Road, and Northward Park Victoria Avenue, a elevation is usually astir C feet (Xxx m), when a american locality is most at sea level. A greatest point inside Milpitas occurs as 1,289-foot (393 m) peak in the southeastern foothills.

To a east of Milpitas lie the foothills, rolling hills, & mountains of the Diablo Range. Monument Peak, a virtually all large summit in the eastern Milpitas hills, is one of the oldest & virtually all easily-known symbols of Milpitas. It presently has the broadcasting antenna which will bring many channel to the South Bay.

Although non in Milpitas' city limits, Monument Peak, Calaveras Reservoir, Arroyo Hondo, Laguna Valley, & a encompassing area come unfeeling and historically considered a share of Milpitas. (Loomis, PatriciThe - Milpitas: A Century of Little Cornfields) Several Portuguese farmers from either a Azores have settled there, including the Coelho, Covo, Mattos, Serpa, & Silva families. It is typically nicknamed by longtime Milpitans when the "hill people." These Azorean families however have a undeveloped lands in a Milpitas foothills, like the Silvas dwelling in Old Calaveras Road. ⁴ a southeasternmost hills belong to the City of Milpitas, which then leases the lands to cattle livestock companies.

There are likewise numerous lakes within Milpitas, virtually all of which are then section of the Berryessa Creek watershed. Calera Creek, Arroyo de los Coches, and Piedmont Creek are some of a lakes that flow from either a Milpitas hills & deposit into the San Francisco Bay. (Look at Berryessa Creek)

Urban layout
Milpitas is divided into trine sections by Interstates 680 and 880. To the west of I personally-880 occurs as largely industrial & commercial region. Between We-880 & its eastern counterpart motorway, We-680, is an industrial zone to the south & residential neighborhoods northerly. More residential neighborhoods & undeveloped mountains lie east of We-680.

Actually, Milpitas has there are no concentrated downtown "center," however instead has the occupy downtown zone by using several retail merchant & eating place. A occupy area of Milpitas may exist as considered to be a part of Calaveras Boulevard west of Main Street and reaching all the way to Highway 237. A therefore-alleged "Midtown" region, a oldest a portion of Milpitas, has numerous historic residences & was a single commercial territory that existed prior to 1945. Midtown is placed in the region in which Main & Abel Streets start parallel to every more. The USPS post office, Saint John a Baptist's Simple & Junior High Catholic School, the Senior Center, and Elmwood Correctional Facility are all in the Midtown section of Milpitas. A Milpitas Civic Center, which includes a City Hall & local branch of a Santa Clara County Library, is non located in Midtown, however stands at the intersection of Milpitas & Calaveras Boulevards. A Civic Center is separated from either Midtown per Calaveras flyover. A boundaries that divide major Milpitas neighborhoods & territory include Calaveras Boulevard and the Union Pacific railroad, which runs from either northerly to south.

About entirely of Milpitas' homes were built when World War II. A 1st housing developments constructed fallowing a war were Sunnyhills & Milford Village, which were two built in the Fifties. (Source: ²)

Sunnyhills is one of a number 1 racially integrated neighborhoods in the United States. Minority leaders Ben Gross, Al Augustine, & Oliver Jones played the major role in the development of Sunnyhills. Several of the houses were designed when 2-story homes. A Milford Village homes were designed to become low-priced & sold speedily. These are attached in the north by Calaveras Boulevard, to the east by La Crosse Avenue, to the south by Yosemite Cause, & to the east by Carnegie Cause. the american & northern sections contain a big Latino people because of the further low-priced homes available there. [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_program=DEC&_lang=en] Parktown, in the south of Yosemite Cause, was developed by Art Sassone in the Sixties. Sassone designed it thus that its residents may hike to nearby parks forgoing crossing the occupy thoroughfare. Though it did non meet two or three minimal requirements, a Milpitas City Council immediately accepted a Parktown Project. Parktown's streets come known as when far-famed national parks in the United States. inside todays world, a houses remain in practiced affliction. Parktown lies east of Interstate 680 in the extreme southeast division of Milpitas.

Hillcrest, in the south of Parktown, occurs as newly condominium & only-personal residence development built in the early Nineties. Besides a construction of great deal freshly housing, Hillcrest Park was as well built, along using an expansion of Ben Rogers Park. Prior to its construction, Hillcrest was undeveloped l& that bordered Sinnott Simple School and Piedmont Road. Sylvan Gardens occurs as 104-page tract placed between modern-contemporary Elmwood Correctional Facility & Calaveras Boulevard. These are in the Midtown locality. Summitpointe, built in the Nineties, is the places of multimillion dollar homes & is placed on the hillside touching Summitpointe Golf Course. Spring Vale Homes, in Vista Ridge Cause near Ed R. Levin County Park, are new multimillion dollar homes overlooking Los Coches Creek and Spring Valley Golf Course. There are presently Nineteen homes & Twenty-six aggregate slews, & a development was constructed within 1978.

Flat: Driftwood, Calaveras Heights, & Laura Apartments in Adams Avenue provide housing for online-income families. A front yard is infamous for the crime that has hard-hitting occurred there. [http://www.milpitaspost.com/] Indian Hills & Dry Creek Apartments in Dempsey Road too provide housing for online-income families, although a rent has okay, never to return as much as just about 900 dollars by the year. Milpitas Apartments in Calle Oriente, by using single just about the 400-dollar each month rent, provide low-cost housing. Monte Vista & Parc West Apartments come middle-class flat in South Main Street. A flat lie directly west of Great Mall. Adjacent to Great Mall, Parc Metropolitan also come middle-class flat that border a mall in its northerly side.

Climate

Placed in the modest Mediterranean climate zone in California, Milpitas enjoys warm, sunny atmospheric condition by owning there is no extreme temperatures or even snow. Getting one of a mildest climates in the United States, the city's temperature rarely drops following 35 ºF (2 ºC) & super seldom lives blizzard, silver storm, or even blizzards. When you took a winter, temperatures are comparatively warmly at an norm of Fifty °F to Seventy ºF (Decade °Hundred to Twenty-one ºC). Showers & cloudy times come frequent in the period of this year, & when spring approaches, the rainstorms step by step dwindle. Around summer, the grasslands on the hillsides dehydrate chop-chop & form brilliantly, golden sheets on the mountains. When opposed to Milpitas' showery, cool winters, a Californian summertime is dry & hot. Temperatures often swelter assibilate Hundred ºF in hot times. From either June to September, Milpitwhen experiences little rain, & as fall approaches, a atmospheric condition bit by bit cools down. Though numerous temperate-climate trees drop their leaves when you took fall in the South Bay, several oaks and palms retain a equivalent density of foliage when it waste the summertime imputable the warmly wintertime temperatures.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 62,698 people, 17,132 menage, & 13,996 families living in the city. A population density is 1,785.2/km² (4,622.9/mi²). There are 17,364 housing units at an typical density of 494.4/km² (1,280.3/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is Thirty.87% White, 3.66% African American, 0.62% Native American, 51.81% Asian, 0.63% Pacific Islander, 7.48% from other races, and 4.94% from two or more races. Xvi.61% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 17,132 family away from which 43.0% develop tikes under a age of Eighteen accept the babies, 65.1% come married couples living together, 10.9% have a female homeowner by having there is no hubby present, & Eighteen.3% come nonfamilies. Xi.5% of a lot family come manufactured higher of souls & Two.9% own mortal dwelling alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical home size is Ternary.47, & a typical personal size is Threesome.72.

In a city the people is spread retired by having Xxiv.6% under a age of Xviii, Ix.5% from either 18 to 2 dozen, 38.0% from either 25 to 44, Xx.9% from either 45 to 64, & Septet.0% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 33 years. For each Centred females, there are 110.Viii males. For each C females age Eighteen & terminated, there are 111.Quaternion males.

the median income for a personal in the city is $84,429, & the median income for a family is $84,827. Males have a median income of $51,316 versus $36,681 for females. A per capita income for the city is $27,823. Cinque.0% of the people & Triad.3% of families come in a image below the poverty line. Away from a amount people, Phoebe.5% of victims under a age of 18 & 6.4% of people 65 & older come dwelling beneath a poverty level. [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_program=DEC&_lang=en]

Law and government
A city is headed by 1 mayor, one vice city manager, & threesome councillor. When of 2005, Milpitas is served by mayor Jose "Joe" Esteves, vice mayor Armando Gomez, Jr., and council members Robert Livengood, Althea Polanski, and Debbie Giordano. A city's seal (best) portrays the farmer substitute the Santa Clara Valley, with a golden hills of Milpitas rising to the east.

A Milpitas Municipal Code, which has eleven sections, can as well exist as discovered [http://municipalcodes.lexisnexis.com/codes/milpitas/ online].

A Milpitas Police Department (MPD) is headed by Chief Charles Lawson, who hwhen been serving as chief since 1994. A police department currently has 130 employees. [http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov/citydept/police/] Tons of the policeman must exist as at least Xxi years aged world health organization use non committed felony or illegal drug use.

Economy

A computer industry, which includes computer equipment manufacturing & computer software programming, is the big source of employment around Milpitas. Inside Milpitas, supplementary 50% of everthing Asians are employed in the computer industry. [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_program=DEC&_lang=en] By owning a gradual decline of computer-related industries in the Silicon Valley, the real estate market is beginning to serve as an alternative source of employment because of the skyrocketing housing numbers within Milpitas.

Milpitas has pleasantly high housing values. E.g., the 1-story, detached individual-personal front yard in the 1,500-square-foot (140 m²) lot may dollars and cents $700,000 in the city. All the same, these cost come considered moo in the San Francisco Bay Area, as the similar house will dollars and cents overrun a million dollars inside Palo Alto or Saratoga. Reasons for a expensive housing include the economy, modest climate, foreign investment in the West Coast's housing, and the vast require for limited homes.

Milpitas headquarters a technology corporations of Maxtor, PalmOne, LSI Logic, Solectron and Adaptec. Quantum, Cisco Systems, KLA Tencor, Seagate, LifeScan, and Veritas also have agents within Milpitas.

Education

Milpitas' public schools come start per Milpitas Unified School District. A metropolitan area schools come among a virtually all ethnically diverse in the United States. [http://www.musd.org/dept/MUSD_Schools.html] A school dominion was founded in a Fifties while the city was upright incorporated. Erstwhile, James Lick High School in Alum Rock was the nighest high to Milpitas. Samuel Ayer High School (nowadays a Milpitas Teen Center & Adlunt Educatiin Center on Calaveras Road) was founded as its single high. In the Eighties, Samuel Ayer High School closed, & Milpitas High School was built on Escuela Parkway. View Milpitas High School.

Milpitas has single of these library, a Santa Clara County Library. A library is scheduled to exist as moved to the previous Senior Center building within Main Street in 2005.

Issues and concerns
Though Milpitas occurs as little suburban community in the South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, some problems & concerns wash survive in the city.

Crime
Overall, Milpitas occurs as comparatively safe city by having the moo crime rate & has an norm of lone 2 or leash homicides annually. Above a previous decade years, a crime rate has dropped 17%. Great deal of the crime that does occur tends to require place in the lower-income neighborhoods of Milpitas. A "XIV" Norteño gang is active witharound occasionally arewhen & can inscribe gang markings in two or three parks, however these are non when dominant as these are in East San Jose.

Methamphetamine is the most widely ill-treated narcotic in the South Bay and is produced locally in the San Jose region. Because of the West Coast’s cheaper methamphetamine prices, the drug is further widely utilized inside Northern California than any other narcotic.

Pollution
Milpitas typically lives odorous air emanating from either a Newby Isl& landfill and a Zanker sewerage coarse of action plant. A odor is especially good west of Interstate 880 because of its close location to the San Francisco Bay. A City of Milpitas is presently attempting to guide this air quality condition & encourages its residents to file odor complaints.

Local lakes & a nearby San Francisco Bay suffer somewhat from either either a water supply supply pollution originating from street water runoff & industrial wastes. A lakes within Milpitas, especially Calera, Scott, and Berryessa Creeks, used to become prime camping spots for native rainbow trout until industrial pollutants killed a fish starting from either a Seventies.

Culture and recreation
As a little suburban area in a ethnically diverse San Francisco Bay Area, Milpitas has the unique culture & a hard feel of community. Within Milpitwhen, there is no ethnic class action may be thought of as either the majority or even minority. A ethnic mix includes Vietnamese, Filipinos, Chinese, Mexicans, Indians, and African Americans. Following, a city occurs as virtual melting pot, which is quite evident in the community's culture.

Milpitas residents too enjoy various ocular & performing arts. A Milpitas Alliance for the Arts, founded around 1997, is an organization which promotes & funds murals, plays, sculptures, and numbers of more forms of art. A "Art in Your Park" task has put numerous sculptures withinside local Milpitas parks, including the ceramic tower witharound Hillcrest Park, the sundial in Augustine Park, & the historical memorial in Murphy Park. A Milpitas Arts & Wine Festival is likewise held annually each August, displaying many different types of ocular & performing arts when generating visitant samplings of two exotic & Californian wine.

Because of Milpitas' diverse ethnic mix, the town has a rich kind of different eating place & culinary art. Chinese, Western, Vietnamese, Italian, & numerous more culinary art offer Milpitans the wide guide of quality nutrients. A bit of of the better eating place inside Milpitas come Marie Callendar's (this branch has been withinside business in Milpitas since a Fifties), ABC Seafood Restaurant, & Sarovar Indian Cuisine.

a big unpaid & community services inside Milpitwhen gives it a reputation as with one of the South Bay's best unpaid software online. A Milpitas Sports Center in Calaveras Road hosts a kind of sports, including swimming, tennis, soccer, and baseball. the Milpitas Recreational Services Department offers a wide range of coach & coaches around basketball, dancing, karate, and more leisure activities. A Miliptas Teen Center & a Milpitas Senior Center besides provide residents by having fun, activities, & training chance.

Milpitas is too personal to a big Bay Metropolitan area shopping center inside acreage, the Great Mall of the Bay Area. Dandy Mall was the previous Ford automobile assembly plant that shut down in the Eighties following of the "Japanese car invasion."

More Milpitas shopping centers and plazas include Milpitas Town Center, Milpitas Square, Jacklin Square, McCarthy Ranch, Parktown Plaza, Beresford Square, & a City Square.

It used to be that, Milpitas got the super different culture from either that of its modern suburban state. When late when a Fifties, Milpitwhen was an unincorporated rural town by using a Midtown territory in independent Street as its main center of business & mixer activities. Back so, several humans knew every more & walked l1 one or even ii blocks off to familiar work. Several old businesses, like Main Street Flatulence (operated per Azorean Spangler brothers), Smith's Corner Saloon, and Kozy Kitchen were easily-known web pages which were favourite spots for even old-timers to chat or prevent by. A Cracolice Building was one of a oldest commercial message buildings inside Milpitas & was a places of numbers of political conventions & meetings. "As Milpitas Goes, So Goes the State" utilized to become a popular motto in the area of the town. Virtually all of the land at present inside modern-contemporary Milpitas' boundaries were utilized for strawberry, asparagus, apricot, and potato cultivation until a postwar boom in the period of the Fifties & Sixties.

Parks
Ed R. Levin County Park is the largest park in Milpitas. A County of Santa Clara Parks and Recreation Department diarrhea a park. Monument Peak can be accessed through trails that lead northward through the county park. A park too will bring facilities for hang gliding and includes a new built dog park.

Both links course, Spring Valley Golf Course & Summitpointe Golf Course, come in the Milpitas foothills. Two use at times upper-class estates placed nearby.

Milpitas besides has Xxviii little suburban parks which are then usually Three to 10 acres (12,000 to 40,000 m²) large. Together, these parks amount 166 estate (672,000 m²) of acreage.

Media
Milpitas' local newspaper is the hebdomadally Milpitas Post. A paper is distributed at there are no charge to tons Milpitas residents each Thursday.

a city is too served by a day-to-day newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News. More popular newspapers around Milpitas include a San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times.

There is no radio stations broadcast from either either Milpitas, however signals may be received from several more South Bay stations:

Radio
News: KGO, 810 (ABC) KLIV, 1590

Weak rock/Adult choice: KBAY, 94.5 (San Jose) KOIT, 96.5

Modern Rock: KITS, 105.3 "Live 105"

Hip-hop/R&B: KYLD, 94.9 "Wild" 94.Niner (San Francisco) KSFM, 102.5 (Sacramento) KMEL, 106.1 – "106.1 KMEL" (San Francisco)

Urban: KISQ, 98.1 Kiss FM KBLX, 102.9

Heavily metal/Classic rock: KFOX-FM, 98.5 KEZR, Mix 106.5 KSAN-FM, 107.7 - "The Bone"

Pop: KMKY, 1310 - Radio Disney

Definitive: KDFC, 102.1

Jazz: KCSM, 91.1 (noncommercial) KKSF, 103.7

Regional Mexican: KRZZ, 93.3 - La Raza (San Francisco) KSOL, 98.9 - Estereo Sol (San Francisco) KZSF, 1370 - La Caliente (San Jose) KAZA, 1290, Radio Casa (Gilroy)

Asian: KSQQ, 96.1 KSJX, 1500

Television
Analog television service available to Milpitas includes: [http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/tvq.html] KTVU, 02 - FOX news station KRON, 04 - "KRON-4" news station KPIX, 05 - CBS news station KGO, 07 - ABC news station KQED, 09 - PBS KNTV, 11 - NBC, "NBC 11," broadcast from either San Jose's Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains KDTV, 14 - Univision (broadcast from Mount Allison in Fremont) KBWB, 20 - Warner Brothers television network KTSF, 26 - San Francisco Asian TV KMTP, 32 - European (German, Italian) and Asian TV KICU, 36 - independent, "Action 36, Cable 6" (broadcasted from Monument Peak in Milpitas) KBHK, 44 - "UPN 44" KSTS, 48 - Telemundo (broadcast from Mount Allison in Fremont; shares same antenna when KDTV) KTEH, 54 - PBS (broadcast from Monument Peak in Milpitwhen; shares same antenna as KICU) KKPX, 65 - i KSFS, 66 - Spanish language TV

Infrastructure
Communications
Rather virtually all more Bay Front yard cities, USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL are readily available to Milpitas. A USPS post professional in Abel Street is Milpitas' home professional for postal mail & is the sole USPS post office in the city. ZIP code 95035 is exclusively for Milpitas & is the exclusively standard ZIP code for the city. 95036 occurs as fresh ZIP that is utilized every now and again for P.O. boxes in Milpitas.

Until a merge sustaining SBC, Milpitas had been relying in Pacific Bell for its telecommunications services.

Transportation
From either northerly to south, a major east-west roads around Milpitas come Dixon Landing Road, Jacklin Road, Calaveras Boulevard, and Landess Avenue/Montague Expressway. From either east to west, a major northward-south roads come Piedmont Road, Evans Road, Park Victoria Drive, Milpitas Boulevard, Main Street, Abel Street, & Barber Lane. Milpitas roads that email into a hills come, from either northerly to south, United states Club Cause, Old Calaveras Road, Calaveras Road, & a personal cattle ranch cause, the historic Urridias Ranch Road.

When by having numbers of more Californian suburbia, Milpitas has divided roads that come maintained swell per local city government. Street title signs come around green, & entirely major intersections keep around traffic signal. Such as a San Jose public works models, 100% walker must manually click a buttin sequentially to turn a earthbound signal lights on (unlike the South Bay cities, San Francisco has automatic pedestrian lights at intersections & don't develop "press to cross" buttons for walker).

Virtually all roads in the city keep close at hand super fresh asphalt pavements that come regularly maintained. Occasionally of the older areas st& roads that come less oft maintained & so develop somewhat other cracks and oil stains than streets in the newly territorial dominion.

Non completely streets around Milpitas use cycle lanes or even pavement. Piedmont Road, Evans Road, & Jacklin Road keep around fantabulous bike lanes & pavement sustaining ample spacing, however Montague Expressway & South Milpitas Boulevard stand limited pavement and narrow bike lanes, which is the causal agent of a few problems for even workers commuting by bike or in foot. Following, Piedmont & Evans Roads have get popular among local joggers & rockers, when machine just about solely occupy Montague and Milpitas. Potentially though it have a white line to the left that warns drivers from either crossing it, careless & speed drivers typically forget about cycle lanes, then completely rockers must exercise caution & ride when far to the best when conceivable.

Highways Highway 237, 680, and 880 link Milpitas to the rest of the Bay Area. Interstates 680 & 880 lead northward to Fremont & south to downtown San Jose. Then again, Highway 237 begins at Milpitas & goes west to Sunnyvale and Mountain View.

A VTA (Valley Transportation Authority) diarrhea light rail (high-speed transit) & local buses for public transport. VTA bus routes in Milpitas come 46, 47, 66, Lxx, 71, 77. [http://www.vta.org/]

A nigh airdrome to the city come the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) and Reid-Hillview Airport in East San Jose, the latter which is for small private airplanes. Although Milpitas is bordered per San Francisco Bay in the extreme northwest, that area is non accessible to ships & boats. Existence landlocked, a city depends on the Port of Oakland for oceangoing freight & on the Union Pacific Railroad for cargo conveyance.