New single-family plans have been proposed for 12805 Llagas Avenue in San Martin, Santa Clara County. The plan may replace a six-acre plot of cropland with over fifty homes. Swenson is listed as the project developer and owner, filing through Green Valley Corporation.
12805 Llagas Avenue, illustration by Swenson
12805 Llagas Avenue site map, illustration by Swenson
Construction will build 45 single-family homes alongside nine accessory dwelling units, or ADUS. The roughly 400 square foot ADUs will be placed in the rear yard of nine homes across the site. Each house will contain an average of 2,500 square feet, including a two-car garage and four bedrooms. The project would yield a combined 190,290 square feet, including parking for 90 cars.
Swenson will also be in charge of design, with BKF Engineers consulting on civil engineering. Plans show simple wood-frame two-story structures. Elevations show five distinct building types dressed with Colonial Spanish Revival or board and batten-clad farmhouse vernacular.
12805 Llagas Avenue elevations, illustration by Swenson
The property is located along Llagas Avenue, close to Monterey Road and San Martin Airport. San Martin is a small census-designated town of 6,200 residents between Morgan Hill and Gilroy.
The preliminary application invokes the Density Bonus program to increase residential capacity above base zoning. The team plans to use Senate Bill 330 to streamline the approval process. The estimated cost and timeline for construction have yet to be shared.
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This isn’t what SB330 was designed for. Just another abuse.
Can you point out three SB330 projects you approve of?
Well I can tell you one that I don’t approve of and that’s a greenfield suburban sprawl development on a formerly productive field when there’s multi-thousands of acres of parking lots and single story fifties crap in every city in the Bay Area ready and available for development, and a lot closer to transit than this terrible project, but you do you.
So you could not find an actual SB330 under-construction project that you approve of?
I don’t work for you and it’s not my job to jump through hoops for you. But you do you.
This project is literally three blocks from a Caltrain station. If we’re building housing in the far suburbs, this is pretty much the perfect location.
If you can’t name a single SB330 project you support, that really seems to indicate a blanket opposition to new housing. NIMBYs always say “build somewhere else,” no matter where a project is proposed…
I know this property well. This is a weird location. I guess the winery can process its waste elsewhere. If not, it would be a bit stinky at times. The huge junkyard one parcel south might be a deterrent to a home buyer, the traffic of junk cars is a bit daunting.
The Llagas Creek flood project across the road will help with the potential flooding. But, getting hooked up to the Gilroy-Morgan Hill sewer plant will be an interesting political challenge. LAFCO probably isn’t going to like it and County Planning historically fights such development. Other than that, enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln.
Greenfield sprawl sucks. Stop it YIMBYs.
All housing supply increase is good. Even if this should have been denser.
Well that’s not actually true. This will lead to loss of productive farmland, will lead to increase traffic of 101, will lead to more greenhouse gases, will lead to a strain on county resources as sprawl development like this never pays for itself. There’s thousands of acres of underutilized land within our cities to build upon and this ain’t it. More crap. More driving. Less open space. This could be built on a parking lot in San Jose and would be an asset rather than a drain.
Exactly.