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Portola Valley council reviews housing-element amendment, moves Dorothy Ford Park off sites list and favors 20'to'25 units/acre
Summary
At a Dec. 4 special meeting the Portola Valley Town Council reviewed a staff proposal to remove Dorothy Ford Park from the housing-element sites inventory and add three alternative sites (Village Square, Christchurch and a Fogarty/Skyline parcel). Staff sought direction on density; council signaled support for a 20'to'25 dwelling-unit-per-acre range and gave staff authority to finalize the draft for HCD submittal.
The Portola Valley Town Council on Dec. 4 received a staff presentation on a proposed housing-element amendment that would remove the vacant portion of Dorothy Ford Park from the town's sites inventory and add three alternative sites: Village Square (884 Portola Road), Christchurch (815 Portola Road) and a Fogarty-owned Skyline parcel north of 19501 Skyline Boulevard.
Steve McCarras, the town's special planning and building projects manager, told the council that feasibility analysis found creek and scenic setbacks and the irregular shape of Dorothy Ford's developable area constrained the realistic capacity of that site (previously described as up to about 50 units). "We are proposing to remove the vacant portion of Dorothy Ford Park and add two new sites" and to revise unit counts at Christchurch, McCarras said.
Staff proposed the Village Square scenario include 20 very-low-income units plus five area-median-income units (25 total) and a change in land-use/zoning from…
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