Preliminary permits have been refiled for four potential versions of a suburban expansion to replace the Berns Family property at 1125 East Main Avenue in Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County. The application uses the builder’s remedy to streamline the approval process, varying from 135 to 171 homes. San Jose-based Bertram Berns is responsible for the application.
The team has filed four potential plans to develop the site, two of which will add a seven-acre parcel across Condit Road. Each filing includes for-sale residences, alongside some affordable low-income homes and junior additional dwelling units. Unit sizes range from 3,000 square feet to 3,800 square feet.
1125 East Main Avenue Project A, site map by CBG
1125 East Main Avenue Project B, site map by CBG
1125 East Main Avenue Project C, site map by CBG
1125 East Main Avenue Project D, site map by CBG
Project A and Project B will add 135 or 136 single-family homes across the same 20-acre parcel respectively. Project A includes 27 deed-restricted affordable homes and 34 market-rate junior ADUs, while Project B will offer all 136 homes at market-rate with 34 affordable junior ADUs. Project C and Project D will include 170 or 171 for-sale homes across 27 acres. Project C will offer 34 affordable homes and 43 market-rate junior ADUs, and Project D includes 43 affordable junior ADUs.
KTGY is responsible for the design. Schematics published by the project team show all homes will be in identical suburban form with a two-car garage, covered entryway, and a second floor. Three distinct styles are identified to add some variety across the suburban tract, including Craftsman, Farmhouse, and contemporary Farmhouses.
1125 East Main Avenue design themes showing slight variation, illustration by KTGY
The Bern Family site is located on the east side of U.S. Highway 101, close to the Live Oak High School campus. Future residents will be just over a mile from Downtown Morgan Hill. The downtown area is anchored by a Caltrain Station, which is only serviced on weekdays, with northbound-only trains in the morning and southbound-only trains in the evening, effectively making the station useful only for Morgan Hill residents.
The estimated cost and timeline for construction have yet to be shared. The project team has not replied to our request for comment.
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Sprawl should be illegal in California.
not sprawl, it’s an infill lot geezus
Yeah, I’m with you on that one. Not sure who writes the headlines but I doubt the application said “Suburban Sprawl) on it. The world is going to still have car-dependent single-family home developments, and doing it relatively densely and with ADUs like this is way better than the one-story ranch on quarter-acre lots I grew up with in the midwest in the ’60’s and ’70s.
The article doesn’t explain how the ADUs will be done – are they going to be the ground floor of the two-story houses or freestanding in the back of the lots?
I’d would love to apply