The projects can disregard local zoning and height restrictions.
A three-story, 12-unit project at 647 N. Santa Cruz Ave., where this retail building now sits, is one of 15 builder’s remedy applications before the town. Developers can propose these housing developments in cities or towns without an approved housing element; the developments can be of any size and height as long as they contain 20% affordable housing units.
As of July 12, the town had received 18 applications for housing developments that invoke builder’s remedy, 15 of which have yet to reach the 180-day expiration mark. Developers have submitted formal applications for six of the 15 valid preliminary applications.proposed for the site of an Ace Hardware store in town to a three-story and 12-unit project at 647 N. Santa Cruz Ave., near the Los Gatos DMV.
The two argued that the housing element, which outlines 2,371 housing units to be built in Los Gatos over the next eight years, goes too far beyond the 1,993 units that the state required the town to plan for.
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