MORGAN HILL
– After months of asking San Jose for a voice in planning Coyote
Valley development, the Morgan Hill City Council has arranged for
South Valley stakeholders to meet on their own.
MORGAN HILL – After months of asking San Jose for a voice in planning Coyote Valley development, the Morgan Hill City Council has arranged for South Valley stakeholders to meet on their own.
The results will be passed on to the San Jose task force planning the expansion.
San Jose plans to develop the area between the two cities with an estimated 80,000 new residents, 50,000 new homes and 25,000 jobs. The growth is significant enough that council wants to have a say in the planning. No Morgan Hill or South Valley resident sits on the Coyote Valley Specific Plan Task Force (the main planning body) except Santa Clara County Supervisor Don Gage, who represents a much larger constituency.
A one-hour workshop is scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 19, at Morgan Hill City Hall, 17555 Peak Ave. It is designed to bring together agencies that will be affected by the development of the Coyote Valley: the cities of Morgan Hill and Gilroy, Gavilan College, the Morgan Hill School District and the San Martin Neighborhood Association.
The Coyote Valley development includes the area west of Monterey Road, largely south of Metcalf Road to just north of Burnett Avenue. Roughly, the northern sector is being considered as light industrial, the central sector as urban residential and the southern area closest to Morgan Hill will remain greenbelt.
