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SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- San Jose residents are serious when it comes to making spirits bright.

It takes Luis Trejo a week to set up his Christmas lights and displays at his home off Santa Teresa Boulevard.

The reactions he gets from neighbors, kids, and his own family makes the effort enjoyable.

"It makes me feel very good, makes me do better for the following year. And start thinking what else can I make different so they can come more and more," Trejo said.

When Trejo and his wife got home from shopping on Wednesday night, there was a line of people waiting.

"Gives me the chills like oh my God they're here for me so I get up and run turn everything on so they could enjoy it," Trejo said.

This year Luis Trejo received a 'Neighborhood Holiday Spirit Award' from Nob Hill.

VIDEO: The Tran family of San Jose competes in ABC's The Great Christmas Light Fight

Rosa Trejo is happy that after 20 years of her husband decorating, more people can see the spirit he brings to the community.

"It makes me happy that all his hard work is seen and appreciated. It feels really nice to see happiness in other people," Rosa Trejo said.

Kids in the neighborhood appreciated and recognized the effort it takes.

Robert Asatryan and his younger brother Albert live in the neighborhood.

"I personally think that I would not put in this much work just to take it out three weeks later," Robert Asatryan said.

Albert said, "It's fun to have a neighbor like this."

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Earlier this week the Tran family in San Jose starred in ABC's The Great Christmas Light Fight.

They were one of four finalist families from across the nation competing for $50,000.

Tony Tran said he posted picture of his yard to a Christmas decorations page on Facebook and caught the attention from a casting director.

His wife Stacey Doan said they were nervous before filming.

"The team, the crew is so nice and they talked to us before that and they make us feel comfortable, so it was a good experience," Doan said.

Doan said they decorated a lot before COVID but on a much smaller scale. During the pandemic they started to go all out.

Tony Tran and his family didn't win on the Light Fight but just being considered a finalist was an honor.

"Something magic about Christmas and the air and the lights that really bring peace to me. I hear kids running around with laughter and you know the -ohh and ahh that really, really makes everything we do is worthwhile," Tony Tran said.

The Tran family starts setting up the weekend before Halloween.

San Jose may have just rescued one of its most ambitious urban development projects — a plan to build thousands of homes at the site of the northside flea market.

Developers had threatened in October to use a legal provision, dubbed the “builder’s remedy,” to significantly scale back plans for a 61-acre “urban village” project at the popular Berryessa Flea Market, contending high interest rates and increasing construction costs made the original project financially infeasible. They sought to scale back the plan for 2 million square feet of office space and 3,450 housing units — which the city approved in 2021 — to just 940 townhouses.

On Wednesday, Councilmember David Cohen announced a deal with Erik Schoennauer, a land-use consultant representing the site’s property owners, to keep the original plan almost entirely intact. In return for withdrawing its builder’s remedy application, the city will help create a special property tax district to raise $100 million to fund onsite infrastructure improvements. It may also allow the developer to replace some of the office space in the plan with alternative uses, such as an assisted-living facility or affordable housing.

“I made it clear from the beginning I was opposed to the builder’s remedy application because it was not in keeping with the long-term vision with the site,” Cohen said in an interview. “I don’t think it’s wise to make a longterm decision on the property based on short-term economic conditions.”

Schoennauer, representing a group led by business executives Brian Bump and Thomas Bumb, said: “It’s all we needed to move forward in cooperation with the city.”

The deal will also allow the property owners to avoid a potentially lengthy legal battle over its application of the builder’s remedy, a provision of state law that allows developers to build projects of any size almost anywhere in cities without a state-certified housing plan. The state only approved San Jose’s plan on Jan. 30, leaving the city out of compliance for a year.

Earlier this month, the city decided to fight back against developers, including those behind the Berryessa development, who had used the builder’s remedy to scale back previously approved projects. Over 4,000 proposed units — including 2,500 at the Berryessa BART Urban Village — would have been cut from the plan. They argued that the builder’s remedy, meant to compel cities to meet their housing production goals, can only apply when scaling up a project.

With the Berryessa development group acquiescing, that argument goes unchallenged for now.

“We’ve decided it makes more sense to work with the city to make something happen,” Schoennauer said.

That’s welcome news to one of the project’s biggest advocates — Mayor Matt Mahan.

“I was glad to see the property owner drop their Builder’s Remedy application, which would have significantly downsized housing and job capacity next to one of the most important public transit investments we’ve made in decades,” the mayor said in a statement. “I stand ready to work with them to secure infrastructure financing and get this project underway.”

Housing advocates like Mathew Reed, policy director for SV@Home, also celebrated the deal that the city reacher with the developer.

“There are still a lot of questions about how this comes together, but we are pleased there is greater commitment to getting back to a real high-density development that that BART station needs for the future of the city and the region,” he said, stressing the need to retain affordable housing planned for the site.

The Berryessa Flea Market which currently occupies the site is a local institution in East San Jose. It was first opened in 1960 by George Bumb Sr., and continues to draw hundreds of vendors — and thousands of customers — four days a week. However, speculation over the redevelopment of the site has been ongoing since the 2007, due to the BART extension project. In December, the Bumb family announced the flea market will continue to operate until at least 2026.

The new deal’s proposed special tax district, a Community Facility District, can issue bonds to pay for on-site infrastructure improvements upfront, which are then repaid over time with a property tax applied only to parcels within the district. Schoennhauer expects to raise $100 million through the district to pay for improvements, including additional streets and sidewalks, sewer line extensions and two bridges over Coyote Creek.

Schoennhauer indicated that before submitting the builder’s remedy application, the city had dragged its feet on initiating the process to establish a community facility district, but said that Councilman Cohen’s assurances made him optimistic that the district would be created in the next 18 months. The city council must approve the district’s formation.

While it already has been reported that the Sharks are open for business ahead of the March 8 NHL trade deadline, it looks like San Jose could get a nice return for a couple of their players on the block.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have interest in defenseman Mario Ferraro and center Luke Kunin, and "are more likely to move a first-round pick" for a player under contract, The Fourth Period's David Pagnotta reported Tuesday. Ferraro signed a four-year, $13 million Sharks contract in 2022, while Kunin remains under team control after this season as a restricted free agent.

"Including a first-rounder in a package could be of interest to both clubs," Pagnotta said of the Sharks and Maple Leafs. "I’d also throw the Edmonton Oilers in the mix for both players, as well. In either Toronto or Edmonton’s case, a contract or two would have to go back San Jose’s way to make the finances work."

In 50 games during the 2023-24 NHL season, Ferraro has tallied 14 points on one goal and 13 assists with a plus/minus rating of minus-22. San Jose's top defenseman leads the team in hits (632) since his NHL debut in 2019 -- but the current state of the Sharks means even stars like Ferraro are on the trade table.

Ferraro said in December that he doesn't want San Jose to trade him, citing "unfinished business."

"This organization has done so much for me, right?" Ferraro told San Jose Hockey Now. "I feel like I still owe them and the fans."

The Nashville Predators traded Kunin to the Sharks in July 2022, in exchange for John Leonard and a 2023 third-round pick. He was the first player trade of Mike Grier's Sharks tenure, and it appears as if the general manager could make quite the return on investment for the center, who is tied for the third-most goals on the team with eight.

But there's no telling if San Jose will be able to hash out a deal for either player, let alone the other four players on expiring contracts Pagnotta expects to be dealt at the deadline -- Anthony Duclair, Mike Hoffman, Alexander Barabanov and Kevin Labanc.

The Sharks' price tags on those players are "steep," per Pagnotta, as none are rentals are thus hold a substantially higher value.

With the deadline just over two weeks away, San Jose fans can expect the smoke around these Sharks players to pick up even more soon.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) – A small business owner in Northern California says her pie shop is out thousands of dollars after Tesla unexpectedly canceled an order for thousands of mini pies.

Voahangy Rasetarinera owns Giving Pies​ in San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood. Each pie is carefully assembled by hand in small batches. Despite that, the bakery has managed to put together orders for large corporations, like Apple, Google and Intuit.

On Valentine’s Day, the bakery got a last-minute order request from Tesla – 2,000 pies, half to be delivered on Tuesday, the other half on Thursday. Rasetarinera said she agreed. But then the waiting game began for Tesla to pay.

After not hearing from her contact, Rasetarinera says she reached out again and sent the invoice multiple times to multiple people. Finally, at 9 p.m. Thursday night, she got a call from Tesla. The company apologized for the delayed payment and asked to double the order to 4,000 pies.

“So I contacted my staff and they’re like ‘Yes, we can work on Saturday, on Sunday, on Monday. We can get it done. No problem,’” Rasetarinera recalls.

She says she sent Tesla a revised invoice and still did not receive a payment. She contacted them multiple times and finally got a response by text.

“Sorry to bother you again, but I’m a small business. I don’t have the luxury of infinite resources so I really need to be paid so I can secure my staff. I received a message back that was like ‘Hey, so sorry, I don’t think we’re going to need this order anymore,’” Rasetarinera said.

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Rasetarinera had turned down other orders and already purchased resources like ingredients, boxes and stickers. After she posted about it on social media, she says Tesla saw it and reached out.

“They said they wanted to make it right by me and they offered for me to do two events on March 6 and 7, but I’m still waiting for confirmation,” she said. “If they want to make it right, I’m going to give them the opportunity to make it right.”

KRON4 reached out to Tesla for comment, but as of Thursday night, they have not responded.

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