College Avenue & Jones Road, Los Gatos Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide

County assessor data for the 302 single-family houses inside the outline puts the median year built at 1960, the median living area at about 2,490 square feet and the median lot at about 14,400 square feet. The range is wide: about 67 houses predate 1941, and about 15 percent were built in 2000 or later. About 55 percent have two or more floors, the highest share of the three hillside guides in this group.

College Avenue climbs south from East Main Street through the middle of the area, with Reservoir Road, Rogers Street and Kimble Avenue on the slope east of it and Prospect Avenue, Prospect Court, Ambassador Court and the new Sisters Court on the upper slope; the uppermost part of College Avenue and College Terrace Court are private roads in the Town's street data. Jones Road runs southwest from College Avenue to Novitiate Park, with Euclid and Oak Grove avenues on the slope between College Avenue and the creek trail. On the east side, Jackson Street runs south from Main Street and bends southwest to Central Avenue, with Grove Street and Oak Hill Way off it, Central Court, Orchard Street and West Central Avenue beyond, and the private Highland Avenue and Highland Terrace climbing south from its bend. Cleland Avenue's south side, facing the Town's Pageant Grounds, is the north edge.

Zoning varies street by street. Cleland Avenue and the bottom of College Avenue are R-1D, the Town's single-family downtown zone for areas first built in the late 1800s and early 1900s; Euclid Avenue, Oak Grove Avenue, Jones Road and most of College Avenue are R-1:8 (lots of at least 8,000 square feet); Central Avenue and Orchard Street are R-1:10; Prospect Avenue, Sisters Court, Kimble Avenue, Reservoir Road and much of Jackson Street are R-1:20; and the private Highland Avenue is HR-2 1/2, a Hillside Residential zone that allows 2 1/2 to 10 acres per house in new subdivisions. Roughly a third of the houses are R-1:8 and another third R-1:20. The Town's Hillside Area map takes in 244 of the 302 houses; there, new homes and major additions or remodels must meet the Town's Hillside Development Standards and Guidelines, adopted in 2004. In the R-1 zones the basic limits are a 30-foot height, 40 percent lot coverage and side setbacks from 8 feet (R-1:8) to 15 feet (R-1:20). Town parcel data records a secondary dwelling unit on about one lot in ten.