Plans have been approved for a townhouse-style development at 20045 Stevens Creek Boulevard in Cupertino, Santa Clara County. The City Council has granted entitlements for a low-slung development, and new building permits have been filed earlier this week. Morgan Hill-based developer Dividend Homes is responsible for the application.
20045 Stevens Creek Boulevard site plan, illustration by Dahlin Group
20045 Stevens Creek Boulevard, rendering by Dahlin Group
The developer plans to build six structures on the 1.8-acre lot. The master plan will produce 32 townhome-style apartments, including six units deed-restricted as affordable to moderate-income households. Apartment sizes will range from 1,550 square feet to 2,150 square feet. Parking will be included for 64 cars.
The application was streamlined by Senate Bill 330, with residential capacity increased by the State Density Bonus Law.
Dahlin Group is the design architect, working with Michael Arnone + Associates for the landscape architecture. Illustrations show a familiar contemporary-style design, with flat-roofed buildings and a collage-style facade, using a few different exterior materials to break up the overall massing visually. The site plan will include flowering pear trees, as per the city’s Central Stevens Creek Boulevard guidelines and Heart of the City Specific Plan.
20045 Stevens Creek Boulevard, image via Google Street View
The 1.8-acre property is located along Stevens Creek Boulevard between Blaney Avenue and Torre Avenue. The site is close to the former Vallco Town Center shopping mall, which is expected to be redeveloped into a mixed-use neighborhood dubbed The Rise.
The estimated cost and timeline for construction have not yet been shared.
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So does “townhome-style apartments” imply they’re not real townhomes in terms of construction? Like, could each of these units stand and function independently if the others were torn down like a real townhome could or are they just 6 apartment buildings with layouts in the style of townhomes? The way the illustration seems to label each of the unit clusters as being singular buildings seems to suggest the latter.
Townhomes share a wall between units. That firewall exists, and there is no tiny gap between it, which is what qualifies this as a row house/townhome. The difference in those two starts to get more niche in particulars.
They are “townhome-style condos”, apartments are typically referred to as rentals. These are for sale condo units that are styled as attached townhouses (all three vertical levels belong to the same unit but shared walls with next door) yet legal ownership is condominium because walls/roofs are all owned together as common interest.