Gilroy residents are invited to offer input at an upcoming meeting on the draft environmental impact report for the proposed 116-unit Hecker Pass Residential project.
The community meeting will take place 6-7pm Sept. 28 at Gilroy City Council Chambers, 7351 Rosanna Street.
City staff have received an application for an architectural and site review and a tentative map permit for the single-family residential development proposed at 2480 and 2740 Hecker Pass Road. The proposed project includes 116 single-family homes, with nine designated for extremely low-income buyers.
The project is proposed on a 24.3-acre site. The development would include the demolition of an existing single-family home, barn and accessory structures, according to the city’s website. It would also require the removal of 22 trees.
The project requires an Environmental Impact Report, the first draft of which is completed. The public comment period on the Draft EIR began Aug. 21 and is open until Oct. 5, according to city staff.
The applicant for the Hecker Pass Residential project is Scott Murray of Mana Camden Fund, LLC, according to the city’s website.
The project is proposed as a Builder’s Remedy project under the state’s Housing Accountability Act. The Builder’s Remedy law allows developers to bypass local zoning and development regulations for projects that include a minimum threshold of affordable housing.
“As proposed, the project does not align with the land use designations, zoning or several goals and policies of the Hecker Pass Specific Plan, nor with related provisions of the Gilroy 2040 General Plan,” says a project description on the city’s website. “Typically, such a project would need to comply with the specific plans and zoning or obtain legislative amendments before review and approval. However, the applicant has invoked the Builder’s Remedy provisions of state housing law to proceed despite these inconsistencies.”
For more information about the project and to download the Draft EIR, visit the city’s website at tinyurl.com/3nhdn2fe.
The Hecker Pass Specific Plan was created to protect our farmland in this treasured area of Gilroy. Now an out-of-town developer is threatening it by using the Builder’s Remedy. We should all comment on the Environmental Impact Report at CE**@**********oy.org. Gilroy has exceeded our housing requirement for the last period. We do not need this housing to meet our requirement for the next period. It will ruin what we carefully planned as our tourism corridor! Come to the Community Meeting on Sept. 28th at 6 PM in the Council Chambers to let the City know your feelings!
Please publish the email address at the City of Gilroy with which to comment on this EIR.
Your destroying our little quant town with all these houses! The store are always busy. Line everywhere we go and the crime rate keeps going up. Then there is trees that been here longer then us. You just want to rip them out. How rude is that. Let the land be no more housing. You see how much destruction the Alexander appointments create.
The applicant is an out-of-town developer who has built projects locally. It’s being brokered by an in-town real estate agent who is a member of several Gilroy organizations and a private longtime local land owner who wants to sell their land. Legal documents received on August 17, 2026 by the City of Gilroy and Gilroy City Council represent a formal dispute between the Mana Camden Fund and the City of Gilroy regarding a proposed 116-unit residential development. Represented by Holland & Knight, the developer alleges that the city has engaged in an illegal “course of conduct” designed to effectively block the project through administrative delays and unreasonable environmental mitigation. The applicant asserts that the project is protected by the Housing Accountability Act and “Builder’s Remedy” provisions, which should exempt it from certain local zoning and specific plan constraints. Specifically, the correspondence challenges the city’s insistence on infeasible mitigation measures related to agriculture, historic preservation, and noise that would diminish the project’s density. The developer concludes by demanding that the city cease its obstructionist tactics or face imminent litigation to enforce state housing laws.
Unfortunately, we live in a an area where the government is trying to bulldoze the
Building of homes in our area under the disguise of
“Builders remedy”! They say 9 Extremely low units make this large complex acceptable and it does not! Find another place to put this housing project! This is unacceptable! Builders remedy circumvents existing zoning laws and allows developers to build as they desire without consideration for infrastructure requirements defined by zoning laws and threatening the safety of all who live in the area. We do not need or want a 116 unit housing project on hecker pass! Hecker pass is a two lane road with too much traffic as it is! 232 more cars on average will cause a huge traffic jam in this corridor. I’m sure there won’t be enough parking stops for these 232 cars as with the case for the housing project on the corner of Santa Teresa and hecker pass. I constantly see cars illegally parked up and down hecker pass! In addition I see many moms pushing their babies in strollers on hecker pass. It’s an accident waiting to happen and we do not need babies and their mothers killed because builders want to make money and the “builders remedy” is a perfect excuse to build and bypass safety on hecker pass.
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