While the city’s overall housing production has lagged, more projects are progressing in North San Jose, with the latest promising to add more than 700 homes near a major tech hub.
San Jose has approved a site development permit for Valley Oak Partners’ 737-unit multi-phase residential project between 211 and 281 River Oaks Parkway. The project includes a seven-story, 505-unit market-rate apartment building, a five-story, 132-unit, 100% affordable apartment building and 100 for-sale townhouse units configured in 14 three-story buildings.
“This site’s been vacant for many years, and when we were first introduced to this site about two and a half years ago, it was in the time when builders’ remedy applications seeking to lower density were abundant,” said Scott Connelly, a representative of Valley Oaks Partners. “We took a different approach. Our company is based in San Jose and we felt it was important to design a project that fell within the vision and spirit of the underlying (transit employment residential) overlay in the San Jose Citywide Guidelines, especially with respect to density per acre.”…