By Robert Haugh
Detailed plans have been revealed for a significant residential development at the Pruneridge Golf Course.
The project, titled “Greens at Pruneridge,” proposes the construction of two apartment buildings on a portion of the existing golf course.
Sacramento-based Demmon Partners, the property owner, seeks to replace a designated area of the golf course with the new development.
The plans envision two structures, one reaching 55 feet and the other 44 feet in height. A total of 361,170 square feet will be developed and offering 324 residential units. The apartments will cater to a variety of needs, with a mix of studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom. Two subterranean garages will have 392 vehicles.
The plans propose a reconfiguration of the existing Pruneridge Golf Course layout to preserve nine holes of the course while incorporating the new development. The existing driving range will remain untouched.
Noise, pollution, crowded spaces. Sounds like life in the big city to me. I’m sure the noise levels from STE don’t come close to that next to the CalTrain tracks, 101 or 280. How about some small praise for them trying to alleviate the housing crunch? I’m sure it’ll be a nice profit for the developer, but they’re not making any more land around here, so might as well shrink some small, lame golf course to add housing. I like playing Pruneridge, it’s nice to see it stay instead of it all becoming housing.
In addition to the noise level there is vehicle fumes. Academic studies have found notable higher cancer rates in people who live downwind of such air pollution. Along El Camino Real there may not be any space for an alternative layout, but here there is room to buffer the resident’s lungs and ears.
Carol,
The configuration of this development makes sense due to it allowing another driveway along Pruneridge instead of just along Saratoga and this is key for allowing more housing units to be developed. It also does not require a much more extensive reconfiguration of the club’s golf facilities and avoids creating points where golfers and residents would need to cross paths all the time.
Will this be a private and gated golf course? I’d be very disappointed if it was closed to the public.
Is that San Tomas Expressway this project is positioned against? That is such as noisy roadway. It looks like the driving range is more protected from the street noise, which makes little sense to me.