The San Jose Planning Commission is scheduled to review plans later this week for a sprawling townhouse development at 5670 Camden Avenue in the Cambrian neighborhood of San Jose, Santa Clara County. The development will replace several baseball fields with over a hundred units across several dozen buildings. Mana Investments is responsible for the application, filing through Mana Camden Fund, LLC.
Construction will produce 32 structures covering 6.6 acres across a 10.7-acre property. Of the 108 units, eight will be deed-restricted as affordable housing. Parking will be included across the neighborhood for 243 cars and 40 bicycles. The application was submitted using the Builder’s Remedy of the Housing Accountability Act. This aims to streamline the approval process and increase residential capacity above base zoning.
5670 Camden Avenue, illustration by Hanna Brunetti
The San Jose Planning Commission is scheduled to meet this Wednesday, March 25th, starting around 6:30 PM. The hybrid event will occur on Zoom and at City Hall. For more information about how to attend and participate, visit the city website here.
Construction is expected to occur across nine overlapping phases, each lasting around nine months. The overall timeline is expected to occur within just 2.5 years.
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Paving over parks and open space is by definition a terrible idea. Sorry.
Awful project, the point of “infill” density projects is to use already developed lands for higher density, not to develop over green spaces.
I’m glad there’s a dense neighborhood of townhomes being built, but I agree I’m confused why it needs to take out those sports fields? Presumably those are for the public school next door? Are they being rebuilt elsewhere?
Maybe (here’s an idea) build a mid-rise building that incorporates the school as part of the building with housing on top, and then the sports fields and green space can be an amenity for the people who will live in the building along with a playground/sports fields for the students?
And why are there more than two parking spaces per unit???
There is a low-slung property with a flat parking lot, making this plot irregular in shape. Plus, there is another flat parking lot across the street.
ALL this land should be part of a combined development. Much better than the irregular plot that is preserving those nearby abominatons.