About Los Altos' San Antonio Hills

Los Altos Neighborhood Spotlight - San Antonio Hills

Where Is It?
This prime area of Los Altos is actually unincorporated Santa Clara County land. The borders are Foothill Expressway, Magdelena Avenue, Ravensbury Avenue, and Permenente Creek.

Types of Homes and Land
Most homes in the area are new or newer and in a variety of styles from Mediterranean to contemporary. There are a lot of custom home styles that stand out including Cape Cod, Carmel-cottage, French Provincial. Home sizes start as small as a few hundred square feet to 6000+. Lot sizes tend to be larger than Los Altos standard with many lots in the 12000-15000 s.f. range. There are a lot of ranch-style homes left over from early development.

Special Features
The Los Altos Hills Country Club takes up a significant portion of the available land. Streets tend to be narrower than other areas of Los Altos but the larger lots offset that. Of course, the area is slightly hilly similar to the Highlands Area of South Los Altos. The HOA for the area is open to annexation but only by Los Altos Hills.

Other Resources
The area has an HOA with its own website. Visit here for even more details and history:
San Antonio Hills HOA Website

Our poor town is having such a hard time actually embracing the 21st century. Once again, we've got neighbors complaining about someone who wants to install a new Verizon transmission tower in the San Antonio Hills neighborhood. This new 55 foot tower would be placed along with 3 others in a residential neighborhood.

I'm sorry, but are all these neighbors using AT&T service? Have they tried to make a call in Los Altos on Verizon? Verizon does not have a strong presence in Los Altos and they need the signal boost. It's ridiculous that I get 1 bar in a town filled with engineers and high-tech executives. We should have 5 bars!

I understand the issue of blight and not wanting commercial technology sitting in the middle of multi-million dollar homes. HOWEVER, there are ways to hide those towers. In my opinion, this town has been suffering with poor cell service for a long time and this is a viable solution. Hide the tower and pick something else to argue about.

There's a concern that having the tower there will impact property values. I don't see how. The area has been selling well with the three towers already there. Having another one is unlikely to make an impact.

BTW - For those of you, even locals, who don't know where San Antonio Hills is, I'll blog about the area soon.