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San Antonio Road area plan: city planners weigh 4,000–7,000 new housing units and trade-offs for neighborhood parks

Palo Alto Parks & Recreation Commission · March 24, 2026
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Planning staff presented alternatives for the San Antonio Road area plan, which could accommodate an estimated 4,000–7,000 new housing units. Staff identified park-deficient zones and options ranging from one large neighborhood park to dispersed pocket parks, and outlined possible funding and coordination strategies with developers.

Planning staff presented the San Antonio Road Area Plan to the Parks & Recreation Commission on March 24, describing four redevelopment subareas along the two-mile corridor and a strategy to add public open space where the plan area is currently park deficient.

Robert Kaine, principal planner, said the plan area covers roughly 275 acres along San Antonio Road between Alma and the Baylands. Kaine told commissioners the plan considers a range of future housing outcomes and said, "the ranges that we're looking at would be anywhere between roughly 4,000 to 7,000 new residential units," a scale that would substantially increase local demand for…

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