Felton Gables, Menlo Park Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide

Four short streets do the work. Felton Drive arcs through the neighborhood and holds about half the lots; Arden Road and Lennox Avenue run lengthwise between its two ends; and tiny Tudor Drive links Lennox Avenue to Encinal Avenue, where another 11 homes face the street. All of it connects only to Encinal Avenue, the Caltrain tracks close off the south side, and the City's 2022 neighborhood profile notes there are no continuous sidewalks, bike lanes or bus stops inside. Punch Magazine describes winding streets with trees and planters in the middle of the roadway.

City parcel records list 114 parcels on the Felton Gables map plus three on a later parcel map in the same zoning district, about 115 homes in all. Lots are generous for Menlo Park, with a median of about 10,100 square feet and the middle half between about 9,000 and 11,300. The houses split between one story (72 parcels) and two stories (35), and about 18 have been built since 2000; Punch Magazine notes that many original cottages have been remodeled or replaced with larger traditional homes. Six parcels record an accessory dwelling unit.

R-1-S(FG) starts from the base R-1-S rules on the City's zoning summary sheet (10,000-square-foot minimum lot, 80-foot width, 20-foot front and rear and 10-foot side setbacks, 28-foot height) and changes three things. Building coverage tops out at 35 percent. The floor area limit is 2,800 square feet plus 20 percent of lot area above 7,000 square feet, or 3,400 square feet on a 10,000-square-foot lot. And the daylight plane rises from each side property line to 20 feet minus the required side yard, then slopes inward at 34 degrees, with limited gable and dormer intrusions on one side of lots of 10,000 square feet or less.