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There is a group of us who call ourselves the Los Gatos Community Alliance. We are volunteer Los Gatos residents who are concerned about all of the developments, underway, planned or pending, in the past two years and the impact they will have on our town.

Therefore we have spent some time adding up the students that will be added to the school system. Additionally, we have studied the mitigated negative declarations and planning meetings as well as the North 40 Specific Plan to make these estimations. 

In not all cases are we convinced the numbers given will turn out to be the real numbers, but the figures below will give you a pretty good idea of the projected impact coming our way. 

The two largest projects, Albright Way and the North 40 are not off the ground yet, so the full impact will be felt more when each is complete in two to four years from now. In the case of Albright, we have estimated on 550,000 square foot of office. 

In the case of the North 40, the final plans have not been produced, so we got our numbers by assuming that most developers are going to max out the property to the limits listed in the North 40 Specific Plan.

We have our backup data on our website if you wish to see how we came to these numbers. We welcome anyone’s input should you see errors or omissions made, especially from the town or the developers. Our goal is accurate information to make us all more aware of future impacts.

Estimated total number of new car trips (newly generated by the developments)–35,247. 

Estimated total number of new students in this district: 337. The schools are already at capacity and 337 is about half the size of an elementary enrollment currently.

More to follow as our research continues. We’re all volunteers, so it gets done when it gets done.

—By Jak VanNada, member of the Los Gatos Community Alliance