Jordan Ranch Project Raises the Bar for New Development in Dublin
Jordan Ranch is 189 acres of mostly residential development that will be located in Fallon Village next to the Positano community in Dublin, CA. Jordan Ranch will include 780 residential units spread over six neighborhoods with parks, an elementary school, and some retail space. The developer and the City Council expressed their reservations about the proposed location of the retail component. The currently proposed retail site may be relocated closer to Fallon Road to ensure the viability of the businesses.
The Jordan Ranch homes will reflect an earlier time when simple farmhouses, cottages, and barns dotted the countryside. Some of the architectural styles will include Farmhouse, Cottage, Folk Victorian, and Rural Contemporary. Of the 780 total residential units, 457 will be single-family detached homes in Neighborhoods 1-3 with private yards of around 400 square feet. These neighborhoods will feature traditional, cluster, and small lot/alley loaded home designs. The other 323 units in Neighborhoods 4-6 will be a mix of townhomes and lofts. The lofts will be built above the retail units in the mixed-use area. The homes located directly off Positano Parkway in Neighborhood 1 will most likely be built first, because much of the necessary traffic infrastructure is already in place.
Mission Valley Properties, the developer of Jordan Ranch, has received high praise for their $5M community benefit payment, which can be used to satisfy the City of Dublin’s 12.5% affordable housing requirement. Senior Planner Mike Porto noted that the market rate homes at Jordan Ranch will already be affordable, so the City of Dublin does not feel any subsidized housing is needed for this project. This $5M payment will be made within three years and can be used for general purposes like bridging Dublin’s structural budget deficit.
Mission Valley Properties has also offered to make a $1M payment to the City of Dublin, if the two-acre semi-public parcel can be rezoned for non-public use. The $1M would be split between a $400K rent subsidy for the Tri-Valley YMCA and a $600K set-aside to be used for a City of Dublin and Dublin Unified School District joint capital improvement project.
Perhaps the most distinctive design feature of the Jordan Ranch project is the large swath of land that runs between Neighborhood 1 and the other Neighborhoods. A walking trail will connect the two sections of Jordan Ranch. In addition the developer is planning to build nearly double the number of guest parking spaces as required by the City of Dublin.
2:40 AM on June 24th, 2010
This is interesting, thanks for posting. Unfortunately from the map, I cannot tell which streets are which. Do you have a way of telling us which is Positano Pkwy and/or Fallon so we can get our bearings? Thanks.
9:05 AM on June 24th, 2010
Hi Anonymous,
None of the proposed streets within Jordan Ranch have names at this point. We will upload a new picture with Fallon Road and Positano Parkway clearly labeled later this evening. In the meantime, we will do our best to describe the road layout as is. The street that runs from the bottom of the map up to left side of the map is Fallon Road. To the West of the neighborhood in blue with 4000-square-foot homes is where Fallon Road intersects with Positano Parkway.
2:27 PM on June 24th, 2010
Got it – thanks!
9:21 PM on June 24th, 2010
4000 square feet lots, not homes…
9:43 PM on June 24th, 2010
You are right, Anonymous. Thank you for pointing out our error. The neighborhood in blue features 4000-square-foot lots NOT homes. The homes in that neighborhood are roughly 2500-square-feet in size on average.
1:56 PM on June 24th, 2010
I hate to be Señior Negativo but I won’t really take any of this seriously till the houses are built.. I’d be an idiot to believe anything at this point. History has shown me that no matter what the City of Dublin says, and no matter what is approved or planned, those can always change for the worse….
10:31 PM on June 24th, 2010
Very nice! Now we just need a new high school in East Dublin!
10:30 AM on July 12th, 2010
This plan doesn’t make a lot of sense. All of that land East of Positano Parkway and South of the existing homes (Braddock and Logan / BK) is nothing but a very deep canyon. Are they planning on filling this canyon and leveling it out?
11:40 PM on July 20th, 2010
Any idea if the 10.1 acre set aside plot labeled “elementary school” is a new location for the elementary school that was originally slated to be east of the Positano (Braddock and Logan/KB/DR Horton) development is? The original drawings that I saw as part of the Promenade plan showed a location that appeared to be east of the Positano community.
1:07 AM on January 29th, 2011
Any update on this? Looks like they started working on the land off of Fallon Road/Positano Parkway.
Are they really going to carve up all of those beautiful hills with homes?
5:38 AM on January 29th, 2011
Hi Anonymous – the Positano development is moving forward at a steady clip. The Jordan Ranch project is going back to the City Council on Tuesday night because the developer is requesting a modification to the plans that will include lower density on the homes, elimination of a semi-public area, a land designation for a new elementary school, and a small retail site.
Thx, John Z.
10:36 AM on January 29th, 2011
Elimination of the semi-public area, and school and retail site? People tend to forget that the whole Dublin Ranch was carved up in beautiful hills. The only think I hope is that in 10-20 years, We will see the neighborhoods covered with tall trees unlike the current look.
11:14 PM on January 29th, 2011
are there other developments going on in the hills beyond jordan ranch? or are the rest of the hills safe from development. i thought i saw construction crews even higher up working on something.
wasn’t there supposed to be a new park out that way and a school?
thx!
5:43 AM on January 30th, 2011
Hi Anonymous – I believe that the construction going on right now is part of Positano – perhaps the Cortona development? Doolan Canyon is another project that could potentially kick off within the next five years or so, as well. Here’s some info on that project:
http://www.arounddublinblog.com/2010/12/dublin-ca-considers-new-development-in-doolan-canyon/
Thx, John Z.
7:54 PM on January 29th, 2011
If anyone wants to see a map of this they can at this website. They aren’t taken the shool area out. I think what the proposal says, is that if the city decides they don’t need a school in this area as currenty designated, the developer can use this area for a certain type of housing. The overall changes are reducing the amount of dwellings from 780 to 751, and changing some of the housing from med-high to medium density.
http://citydocs.ci.dublin.ca.us/weblink7/DocView.aspx?id=308642
4:47 PM on January 31st, 2011
John Z,
What is planned for these “semi-public areas”, for example on the corner of Positano Pkwy and W Cantara Dr. Are these going to be developed as neighborhood parks etc., or left as is?
thanks John Z
6:13 PM on January 31st, 2011
Hi Dublin Newbie – the Jordan Ranch developer is actually proposing to eliminate the 2 acre semi-public area. The developers are also hoping to convert 4 acres of planned open space to commercial space to bring in more money. A neighborhood park is currently planned for Jordan Ranch and I’d be surprised if the developer and Council strike that from the plans since it will help to sell homes.
Thx, John Z.
1:24 AM on February 1st, 2011
If anybody gets to attend the public meeting about this, can you post a quickie on what happened? we unfortunately cant make it.
thx!
5:42 PM on October 26th, 2011
No more common driveway, small lot houses, im not sayin huge homes but we need decent lots to make the neighborhood look good, funds for a school have to be earmarked now. How about some lower than market homes on the west side…
7:51 PM on October 26th, 2011
Another 1000 homes to pay for schools and parks to support the last thousand homes already built. A bad formula we are following, we’ll never catch up unless we start building mega residential towers. The city needs to look at other revenue streams a la corporate office etc.. to raise revenue for schools and parks instead of keep building homes.
1:33 AM on January 30th, 2011
I guess the City of Dublin is not aware of the overcrowding issue in the East Dublin elementary schools. That’s why they can’t wait to give the school site back to the developers to build more homes.