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North San Jose
NSJ
Task Force
The City
of San Jose convened a Task Force of North San Jose residents, business
owners and property owners to assist with planning for the development
of new neighborhoods and neighborhood services as part of the implementation
of the City's North San Jose Area Development Policy. The North
San Jose Neighborhoods Planning Task Force held its final meeting
on March 6, 2008. The Task Force unanimously adopted a set of Guiding
Principles for future planning and development activity in the North
San Jose Policy area.
Based
upon the input of the Task Force, a North San Jose Implementation
Strategy is under preparation. The Implementation Strategy will
include the Guiding Principles, design guidelines, neighborhood
master plans, and strategies for the future implementation of the
North San Jose Area Development Policy.
Additional
information on the Task Force is available at http://www.sjredevelopment.org/nsjtaskforce.htm
Overview
The updated North San José Area Development Policy will guide
the ongoing growth and development of the North San José
area as an important employment center for San José. This
Policy covers the North San Jose area north and west of Interstate
880 and south of State Route 237. This primarily industrial area
is home to many of the City’s high-tech companies and is a
very important employment center for the City. The City’s
goal for this planning effort is to provide for more development
in North San Jose through a set of policies that benefit both the
employers who call North San Jose home and the residents of San
Jose as a whole.
The Policy provides more flexibility than the adopted policy and
provides additional industrial development capacity for 20 million
square feet of transferable floor area credits that can be allocated
to specific properties within the Policy area. The Policy supports
the conversion of specific sites from industrial use to high-density
residential use, based upon specific criteria compatible with industrial
activity. The Policy also identifies necessary transportation improvements
to support new development and establishes an equitable funding
mechanism for new development to share the cost of those improvements.
City staff and a consultant team began working on technical analysis and preparation of environmental documents for the update in January of 2004. Community outreach activities were conducted from October 2004 through May of 2005. The San Jose Planning Commission considered the project on June 7, 2005 and recommended approval to the City Council. The City Council approved the project on June 21, 2005
Above and Below: Images of North San Jose today and in its potential future
Images courtesy of Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) & Silicon Valley Action Network
Update to the North
San Jose Area Development Policy
The San Jose City Council approved an update to the North San Jose Area Development Policy, associated General Plan Amendments and the creation of a Traffic Impact Fee for the North San Jose Area on June 21, 2005. The following documents were approved by the City Council:
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