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Gilroy council approves two Glen Loma Ranch tentative maps to create 126 single‑family lots
Summary
The council adopted resolutions approving two tentative maps in the Glen Loma Ranch specific plan area that together subdivide about 47 acres into 126 single‑family and duet lots and associated open space, trails and sound walls; council found no new environmental review beyond a previously adopted EIR addendum was required.
The Gilroy City Council unanimously adopted resolutions approving two tentative maps for final neighborhoods within the Glen Loma Ranch specific plan area.
Staff explained the applications cover two tentative maps. TM‑2402 (Town Center Flex neighborhood) would subdivide about 6.7 acres into 42 compact single‑family duet lots, four open‑space parcels, four private streets and one parcel to be conveyed to the city for a fire station per the Glen Loma Ranch development agreement. TM‑2403 covers three neighborhoods — Canyon Creek, Rocky Knoll and Malvasia 2 — totaling about 41.36 acres and proposing 84 compact single‑family lots, trails (including Autumn Camp Trail and portions of the Santa Teresa Trail), and required sound walls where lots back onto major roads.
City staff reminded the council that a programmatic environmental impact report (EIR) for the Glen Loma Ranch specific plan was certified in 2005 and that, because development over time reduced the total number of planned units, staff recommended adoption of an EIR addendum (previously adopted on Oct. 7, 2024) and concluded no additional independent CEQA review was required for these tentative maps. Staff noted the specific plan initially envisioned flexibility for the Town Center Flex site but the council previously determined that no commercial uses would be developed there and that single‑family attached homes would be built consistent with the specific plan.
Highlights and requirements described by staff included density figures (roughly 9–10.26 dwelling units per net acre across the neighborhoods), construction of trails and a bridge connection, and sound walls where homes back onto Santa Teresa Boulevard or West Luchesa Avenue. Staff said the maps, if approved, would complete the Glen Loma Group’s portion of development within the specific plan area; the Olive Grove neighborhood remains under school district ownership and could be developed separately in future.
Council members moved and seconded the recommendations; both resolutions passed unanimously after roll call votes. Council member Marx acknowledged engineer Armenta Jensen’s two decades of work on the maps during the meeting.
Staff will proceed with conditions of approval and filing per the adopted resolutions and the development agreement.
