California Landings

Situated just off Highway 280, California Landings is a new, fairly unique development that offers a very modern living appeal. It is small, rectangularly shaped and encompassing about a dozen short, exclusively residential neighborhood streets. While still firmly gripped in the middle-class, the neighborhood has suffered a number of foreclosures within the area. Homes are stitched closely along residential blocks, as if built on top of each other (like a condominium/townhouse city), leaving no room for side yards. These residences are also almost identical to each other in architecture, color and layout.

California Landing’s residential terrain is dominated by thin, beige, two-story starter homes with narrow front yards. Second floor windows peek over the two-car garage out front, while your interior living space stretches deep into properties. With such tight quarters, your bound to run into your neighbors every day. There are also a small community of condominiums/apartment homes set within the northern limits of the neighborhood. These residences are also packed on top of each other and rise three stories high. As a whole, residences have neat landscaping and yield nicely paved streets with lush green residential aesthetic. Its one drawback is that the community affords little space for visitor parking.

Its biggest draw is its proximity to Dixon Landing Park. The parkland hosts everything you need out of a park: a nice outdoor basketball court, a couple communal tennis courts and three youth baseball fields. Also, the community is situated close to Highway 280, which makes commuting a reasonable evil.

The California Landings “neighborhood” on the far north end of Milpitas—just to the south of Dixon Landing Road and Fremont—is basically a townhouse/apartment/condominium city. It is all very nicely manicured with pools and green walks up to your dwelling. Of course, you need to pay special attention to the numbers of your home otherwise you will not be able to find any distinctive marks to point out your place from any one else’s.

Rents here runt in the $2100 range for a 3-bedroom. As to buying a condo here, they will currently run you between $275K and $550K—with just about every home in the neighborhood being on the market due to foreclosure.
Basically, this is a relatively affordable area within striking distance of Silicon Valley.

And yes, as my title indicated there is a Trailer Park in California Landings. But you won’t find any mobile homes or that sort of thing there. Actually, it is a park named “Trailer.” I don’t know if there is actually someone named “Trailer” or if this is just a kind of joke on someone’s part. It’s actually a pretty good park with tennis courts and baseball fields—a real jock park.

Milipitas High School (a pretty solid school) is just to the east as well, so this is definitely a family friendly location.

In this neighborhood there is a little strip mall with a 7/11, but you have to head down to E. Calaveras for supermarkets and that sort of thing. There is not really much by way of restaurants in this neighborhood, so that is something that you need to drive to as well.

That said, you can of course make your way to the mall or into San Jose proper for any number of entertainments and food establishments.