FREMONT — A housing improvement alongside East Warren Avenue is on maintain after neighbors introduced visitors and privateness considerations to the eye of town’s planning fee.
The planning fee this month delayed approving the Warren Place Improvement — a plan for six, two-story properties on undeveloped land previously owned by Caltrans — after a number of residents complained the street is already too harmful and the brand new neighbors would be capable of see into their backyards from their second story properties.
Harry Wei, who lives on Crawford Road instantly behind the proposed improvement, stated he worries the brand new properties would invade his privateness, including in an interview that “it’s just weird that someone can look into your house if they wanted to.” The main bedroom of the house his mother and father bought and he now lives in would face the event.
“I don’t want it. I’m completely against it,” the 22-year-old stated. “I’m not trying to think the worst of people, but it is something you have to consider. It’s just going to be annoying.”
He additionally echoed a number of different residents’ considerations about drainage, which has been a problem throughout wet months within the neighborhood. Due to the sloped Interstate 680 overpass behind the Crawford Road properties, rain has for years drained instantly into the backyards of neighbors, usually inflicting flooding on their properties.
On the Could 1 assembly of the planning fee, Commissioner Ben Yee stated he’s seen a “mud river” there earlier than throughout storms, attributable to a storm drain on Warren Avenue being “inundated.”
Dave Ayers, the architect for the mission with Herald & Ayres Architects, informed the fee the builders plan to work with town to rehabilitate the water infrastructure within the space to appease neighbors’ worries of flooding.
Ayers additionally stated the second story of the properties are deliberate to additional setback from authentic plans to offer extra space between the brand new and current residences. The brand new properties’ first ground can be setback a minimal 15 toes from the present neighbors’ rear yard property traces alongside Crawford Road and second flooring can be setback 18 to twenty-eight toes, in response to the design plans. Builders additionally plan to put in smaller home windows to additional restrict views from the second ground into neighbors’ properties.
However Wei remains to be not pleased with the modifications.
“I still think that doesn’t really fix it completely,” Wei stated. “You kind of can’t trust them on that.”
The proposed Warren Place Improvement in Fremont, a plan for six two story properties alongside E. Warren Ave. and I-680 in Fremont, Calif., on Friday, Could 9, 2025. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group)
Different neighbors are involved in regards to the entrance to the proposed improvement, the place they are saying there may be already security considerations concerning rushing vehicles and cyclists. On the Could 1 planning fee assembly, one resident famous that an aged man was killed in a hit-and-run in December 2017 alongside Warren Avenue close to Bradley Avenue.
In line with a police report, the person was hit within the roadway — not the crosswalk — on the night of Dec. 5, 2017, and pronounced lifeless on the scene. Police arrested the alleged driver after apparently discovering the supposed car with entrance finish harm in a close-by buying heart.
Residents have gathered over 1,400 signatures in an internet petition to request town set up a cease mild within the space to keep away from accidents. However the metropolis by no means put in a cease mild there.
Different neighbors, similar to Arun Kumar, wrote to the fee complaining they’d lose treasured views of Mission Peak from their properties if the brand new properties have been constructed. Kumar, who owns two properties on Crawford Road, stated he purchased his first home for the view. He purchased the second house, he stated, as a result of he misplaced the view when Caltrans constructed a sound wall alongside I-680 behind his first house.
“With the new homes, I will lose it again,” Kumar wrote.
Paul Castro, who has owned his house on Crawford Road since 1987, additionally has considerations over the invasion of his privateness. In an interview, he stated he wish to know how lengthy the development would take, as a result of he had not heard from town or developer in regards to the length of the mission.
“Other than that, I don’t have any problem with the development,” Castro stated.
The fee selected Could 1 to proceed to improvement’s dialogue to a later date.
