The San Jose Planning Department has approved a seven-story residential infill at 1000 South De Anza Boulevard near the city’s border with Cupertino. The application invokes the Builder’s Remedy to circumvent certain local zoning restrictions and permit the construction of more than 100 new apartments. Borello Asset Management is the project owner and developer.
1000 South De Anza Boulevard vertical cross-section, illustration by LPMD Architects
The 91-foot-tall structure is expected to yield around 111,900 square feet, including 72,930 square feet for housing, 15,840 square feet for the garage, and 3,320 square feet for the podium-top courtyard. Unit sizes include 44 studios, 42 one-bedrooms, and 32 two-bedrooms. The garage will use mechanical lifts to reach a parking capacity of 148 cars. Bicycle storage will be provided, though the capacity is not specified. Of the 118 units, 24 will be deed-restricted as affordable to households earning around 80% of the area’s median income.
LPMD Architects is responsible for the design, with RW Stover & Associates working as the landscape architect. The podium-style complex will feature a smooth stucco facade with faux-wood patches scattered across the exterior.
1000 South De Anza Boulevard, image via Google Satellite
The 0.72-acre property is located along South De Anza Boulevard, between Bollinger Road and Clarendon Street. Future residents will be across from a Home Depot big box location, half a block from a Trader Joe’s grocery store, and several other small shops.
Eric Schoennauer of the Schoennauer Company served as the land-use consultant. Construction is expected to last around 14 months from groundbreaking to completion.
Subscribe to YIMBY’s daily e-mail
Follow YIMBYgram for real-time photo updates
Like YIMBY on Facebook
Follow YIMBY’s Twitter for the latest in YIMBYnews
Will these be senior living or low income units?
These pro housing people will die in unrest
Thank you for your valuable contribution to the housing discourse. *eyeroll*
We have more workers than housing in the county as it is. What do you think the solution is rather than build more housing where the jobs are?
Affordable housing for 3500 a month studio. Tired of these lies. This bs is why cali is dying.
Really? $3500 a month for a studio? Pretty sure only the prime, jobs-adjacent housing in the south bay can command that kind of rent. $3500 a month for a one-bedroom is more common for new builds. Hey, I wish rent was cheaper but that’s also not the reason to stop a housing development, especially in a extremely low vacancy market.
Someone earning $126k a year can afford a rent payment of $3,500. There are plenty of workers here earning that much and more. If this project did not exist, those residents still exist and still reflect demand on the existing rental housing stock. New projects like this don’t raise prices, lack of housing supply raises prices.
Remember, hour housing system in the US relies on the private development market to produce new market rate housing. “Deed restricted affordable housing” is provided either an 100% affordable developments, which have to be subsidized through low interest government backed financing and/or ongoing rental subsidies, or through inclusionary zoning, which raises the cost per unit of the market rate portion of the development.
More chicken coops