An affordable housing development with well over 100 units is being eyed on a San Jose site.
SAN JOSE — An affordable housing development with well over 100 units is being eyed on a San Jose site now occupied by a small retail strip center, a fresh example of a fast-shifting real estate landscape in the Bay Area.
The proposed development would consist of 160 apartments, according to a proposal on file with the San Jose Planning Department. As prospects for office buildings and retail centers become murkier in a wobbly economy, real estate firms have increasingly turned to housing as a more fundamentally solid development option.
What is clear, according to the planning documents, is that the project applicant seeks an expedited city planning review of the proposal using provisions in a state law known as SB 330. SB 330 can be used to limit the roadblocks that local governments can place in the path of a project proposal.
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