“This area represents the valley’s greatest opportunity to move the needle on our affordability crisis,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said.
For nearly a decade, San Jose had been paralyzed from building any new housing in one of the most prime areas of the city due to years of legal squabbling with neighboring cities and Santa Clara County.
“We’re very happy that the council and city of Santa Clara have become a partner in solving the housing issues in our region,” said San Jose councilman David Cohen, who represents North San Jose. “It’s a great milestone to have that behind us.” The deal culminates nearly two decades of legal battles between the two cities — a breakthrough celebrated by elected officials on both sides. Even so, it has not quelled everyone’s concerns.
“Our expectation is simple — it’s that the city made a promise in a legally binding settlement in 2006 and it needs to keep that promise,” Williams said. “Our concern here is truly specific to ensuring that the infrastructure is in place to ensure that people who then come to live in North San Jose can get to where they need to go — and that is something that all public entities should care about.
Milpitas, Santa Clara and Santa Clara County sued San Jose shortly after, arguing that the city had failed to account for the traffic issues that such significant increased development would create for neighborhoods surrounding the North San Jose boundaries. An initial settlement deal reached in 2006 forced San Jose to divide up its development plan into four phases, capping developers in each phase to roughly 8,000 new housing units for every 7 million square feet of new commercial space built.
Mayor Sam Liccardo said in an interview Thursday that the city had made “a great step forward” toward building critically needed housing. However, he added, “all of this is for naught if the county of Santa Clara ultimately decides it wants to litigate instead.”
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