A settlement between the city of San Jose and Santa Clara County has the potential to bring in 32,000 new housing units at various price points in North San Jose.
Signed off unanimously by the San Jose City Council, the two jurisdictions resolved a decade-long legal disagreement that prevented San Jose from building housing developments in its northern region.
In 2005, San Jose drafted framework to reconstruct North San Jose as the city's new hotspot for housing, offices, hotels and retail shops. But the plan came to a standstill after Santa Clara County and the cities of Santa Clara and Milpitas sued San Jose, alleging that the plan did not adequately consider how it would affect transportation facilities.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
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