A battle has erupted over a proposal to use a “builder’s remedy” to bulldoze a swim and tennis club in San Jose and replace it with housing.
SAN JOSE — A battle has erupted over a real estate developer’s plan to use a “builder’s remedy” as the catalyst for a housing project that would bulldoze a long-time swim and tennis club in San Jose.
“Because the project will be affordable” as defined by a 2020 California law and since the city of San Jose has yet to adopt a housing element that is “substantially compliant” complies with that law, True Life Cos. has submitted a preliminary application for the project “pursuant to the builder’s remedy for its 1170 Pedro Street housing development project,” the Miller Starr Regalia attorney wrote in a letter to the city.
The maneuvers by True Life Cos. quickly set off alarm bells among numerous residents who live in or near the Willow Glen district. In the letter to the city planners, True Life stated that a number of the residences in the project would be affordable. “Staff would not support the general Plan Amendment and associated project,” Manuel Atienza, a project manager with the San Jose Planning Department, wrote in a letter to the developer.
“The loss of commercial space would result in a loss of jobs and revenue to the city,” city planners wrote to the developer. “Housing also requires more services from the city than commercial space and would therefore further decrease the city’s net revenue.”
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