The pre-application has been filed for a new suburban development at 20202 Harry Road in Alamaden in southern San Jose. The project will bring well over a hundred homes to the vacant property. Latala Homes is responsible for the application.
The Senate Bill 330 pre-application invokes the builder’s remedy to “propose eligible housing development projects that do not comply with either the zoning or the general plan,” as written by ABAG and referenced by Holland & Knight in the pre-application letter.
20202 Harry Road site map, illustration drafted by Lawrence E. Stone
20202 Harry Road, image via Google Street View
The plans aims to bring around 177 units of detached single-family homes, yielding 435,000 square feet of housing and 98,000 square feet for private garages. Of that, 36 will be designated as affordable to low-income households. Bassenian Lagoni is listed as the project architect, though illustrations have yet the be shared.
The open space is located where Almaden Expressway meets Harry Road, close to the Alamitos Creek and Calero Creek. The site is next to the Challenger School campus, a storage facility, and several other suburbs. The estimated cost and timeline for construction have yet to be shared.
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Can’t believe San Jose is still allowing SFH when there are hundreds of vacant or run down parcels they can build on. They can’t even afford to maintain their existing road network. 1 hour walk from the closest Safeway… sure it’s a 5 min drive but having to drive everywhere is the reason the planet is burning.
All new supply is good supply.
I can’t agree. We are digging ourselves deeper into a problem that’s hard if not impossible to undo once built.
Absolutely agree. This is a terrible idea. The plan every 8 years is unsustainable, and the Builder’s Remedy gives free rein to the developer.
I believe Batra our councilperson posted something regarding certain projects coming in through BR under the wire because the city had not met the Housing Element allotment. There is also one along Almaden Road for 40 houses between Minoru and the nursery. That apparently made it in under the wire. .
It’s a “Builders Remedy” proposal under SB330. San Jose has no say in what the developer wants to build here. It’s also exactly the opposite type of project the spirit of the law intended to facilitate.
I don’t have a problem with exurb sprawl IF it comes with a bargain of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Mountain View, etc. getting upzoned to 15 stories in return.
I hear you. Menlo Park is actually getting a big project where Sunset magazine used to be.
..take paradise and put up a parking lot……………..
I’ll miss that nice level piece of farmland. Soon to be gone.
Urban sprawl,thats the “spirit of san jose”. Pave pave pave
Dumb ass building the sewer system and water infrastructure is outdated and will collapse,more crimes,drugs and immigrants trying to get free housing take care of Americans and vets first.lets talk about the biggest invasion happening know will all the immigrants coming over
Development like this in open space with extremely high VMT and CO2 impacts is the reason wildlife populations are crashing, people feel disconnected to each other, climate is changing, and yet the treadmill growth begetting growth leaves us with homelessness. But don’t blame the “smart growth” or no growth NIMBYs for this. This is the result of the greed growth business money and unwitting and unsophisticated compassionate people who have aligned to form YIMBY organizations.
I couldn’t agree more. Especially the last sentence.
Totally agree. Wildlife is getting continuously pushed into smaller and smaller spaces. I used to see Kestrels on the wires along the road there. No more. People move in and start scattering rat poison which in turn kills the Raptors. Soon the whole concept of “ Open Space “ will be something kids read about in history books.
Looks like a good, unused piece of land that can become homes to many people who want homes. The people that oppose it always seem to be the people who already have their homes. But look at the aerial view of the area, and you can see that adding homes to that one field is insignificant to the existing homes that have already been built (and are not enough).
We had this fight several years ago. As I recall IBM (Armonk, NY) was going to sell this property which is basically an orchard.
I might have all the records of our case….
No, the orchard is down the street closer to Henwood. This is not an orchard, it is completely open.space.
This is another example of deceptive practices by government at all levels. If this project is allowed to go through Almaden Expressway will become a six lane freeway. So much for any quality of life.
BTurnerThat was not the IBM property fight. It was a parcel two doors down.
This is just awful! We must preserve our open spaces. Once gone, gone forever. Enough urban sprawl!