Willow Glen Resident

News

News Briefs

Save energy, money
with group buy plan

The first of two community workshops on "group-buy" discounted solar systems will be take place on April 21 at 10 a.m. at 1433 The Alameda.

The second workshop will be held May 12 at 10 a.m., Hoover Community Center, 1677 Park Ave.

Willow Glen resident Mike Borbely has set up the workshops with SolarCity, a solar energy company based out of Foster City.

The program offers significant discounts on solar-electric systems to homeowners and businesses that participate. The larger the group of participants, the bigger the discount. The area defined for this program will be ZIP codes 95124, 95125 and 95126, which include the communities of Willow Glen, Cambrian and Rose Garden.

Community workshops are for residents to come learn about the program and answer any questions they may have.

For more on the group-buy information and related topics, visit www.solarsanjose.com. The website includes information for consumers about energy consumption, pollution and related areas.

Residents are also encouraged to take the resident energy survey, Borbely said.

Survey respondents have the option of clicking a choice to have a SolarCity representative contact them to do a free site assessment at their home.

For more information or to RSVP to a workshop, visit www.solarsanjose.com.

Radio Avenue project
goes before planners

A planned development at 2102 Radio Ave. is in the permitting phase with the San Jose Planning Department. The developer is requesting two permits, one for a planned development and the other for a tentative subdivision map of the property. The permit will allow the construction of 13 "duet-style" homes-- residences built side by side--and one single-family detached home at the front of the project facing Radio Avenue on a 0.71-acre site. The project will be built on a three-quarter-acre site and named Willow Village Square.

According to site plans, the parking required for this project is 2.8 spaces per unit. The project is designed with a total of 45 spaces, which satisfies the required allotment.

The project's initial community meeting was held a year ago on April 10 and included concerns about an increase in overall traffic and how the development would affect the safety of seniors using Willows Senior Center and children crossing the street at Lincoln Glen Park.

Robert Raffanti, the developer of the project and a Willow Glen resident, said the project would be beneficial to the neighborhood, and the traffic and density would not have a negative affect.

"Our goal is to seamlessly integrate the project with the neighborhood," Raffanti said.