Coyote Valley Vision Plan, San Jose CA
Designed as WRT/Solomon ETC, 1998
John Ellis Urban Designer with Daniel Solomon, Jim Stickley, Steve Hammond
The Greenbelt Alliance sponsored this report entitled ‘Getting it Right’ to demonstrate how the proposed expanion of San Jose within Coyote Valley could be achieved as a transit-oriented mixed-use development in contrast to sprawl. Starting with an analysis of the hydrology of the site, the plan proposed creating a compact footprint that would preserve two-thirds of the site as open space. The urban design proposed a street and block pattern that integrated with the existing road and field layout. A dense downtown was proposed along Bailey Avenue linking a new Caltrain station with an extension of the VTA light rail along Santa Theresa Boulevard.
The design won a CNU Charter Award in 2005.
Coyote Valley in context.
Aerial perspective by Hank Schulz.
Coyote Valley Plan proposed a compact, transit-oriented, mixed-use town for 25,000 residents preserving 2/3rds of the vsite as open space and agricultural land.
Aerial view of Downtown showing the one-way couplet streets along Bailey Avenue linking the new Caltrain Station and the new Light Rail stop on Santa Teresa Boulevard.
Commercial District blocks.
Residential District blocks.
Commercial Mixed-use District.
Industrial districts.