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The Pleasanton city planning staff and Ponderosa Homes will ask the City Council tonight to allow the construction of 12 new, moderately-priced homes near the downtown district, replacing a closed, run-down old trailer park.
Ponderosa sought the same approval last month from the Pleasanton Planning Commission, but was turned down because it failed to include upgrading or tearing down a 1912 vintage home at the front of the property on (old) Stanley Blvd., near Main Street.
Ponderosa said it is acquiring the 2.1-acre parcel that was part of an estate left to a Lutheran Church foundation by the late Jerry Wagner, who owned the trailer park. The house, which is occupied, is on the church-owned property and not part of Ponderosa’s acquisition or responsibility, Ponderosa’s president Jeff Schroeder told the commission.
At one time, however, Ponderosa planned to include the old house lot in its plans and would have built 14 homes. After analysts examined the house and the cost of restoring it, demolishing it or moving it, Ponderosa reduced its development plan to 12 homes and excluded the lot from its plans.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the planning staff is expected to review in detail for the council the options for the site, including Ponderosa’s plan for the 12 homes, along with demolishing the old house or restoring it and at whose expense.
The public hearing will start at 7 p.m. in the City Council chambers in the Civic Center, 200 Old Bernal Ave.
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I rent near downtown and would have loved to buy that hold house. I see people living in it now and it works just fine. I am amazed that I never knew it was available to buy, bet the price was low too.
These old homes are loved by most of us in the downtown. They are valuable to us and almost everyone that lives here.
Ponderosa is just another big business out for their own profit, they don’t care about our town.
I would not buy a house from Ponderosa. No way.
Gene, wake up. Most of the old houses look pretty or charming to people that simply drive by, but go inside one of them and they are small, dark, no storage, funky plumbing, drafty and smelly. It takes alot of money to make them liveable and bring them into current codes regulations. But it sounds like the property owner had someone interested and willing to do it. I have lived here for thirty years and like old houses too in the downtown but I still dont think government has a right to require an owner to fix up a old house if they want to sell their land.
Old vintage houses are not for everyone, but I love my 100 year old downtown house.
The church owns the house, and through their property rights they can sell it to anyone they want to, but who ever buys it takes on the responsibility to do right with the old house.
Actually Ponderosa is trying to build faux old houses, and this the real thing- it’s genuine!