Glenview Highlands & Millbrae Meadows, Millbrae Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide

Helen Drive is the spine. It runs west from Tioga Drive past Lions Park and Meadows Elementary and curls north toward the San Bruno line, and Larkspur Drive drops from it to I-280. North and west of Helen Drive, the Meadows streets lie in parallel rows on the slope: Ridgewood, Glenwood, Fernwood, Elmwood and Oakwood drives, Brookside, Mosswood, Banbury and Robin lanes, Redwood Way, Terrace Drive and Claremont Court. South of it, Crestview, Sycamore, Tuolumne, Ahwahnee, El Capitan, Clearfield and Springfield drives, Sleepy Hollow Lane, Evergreen Way and Pinehurst Court step down toward Hillcrest Boulevard, with Estates Drive, Alto Loma, Linda Vista, Arroyo Seco, Del Centro, La Prenda and Riverton Drive in the corner above Hillcrest Boulevard near the freeway.

Nearly everything here is a single-family house: county parcel data counts about 1,250 houses and one triplex, with no condominiums. The median lot is about 6,300 square feet, and the middle half runs from about 5,500 to 7,800 square feet, with bigger and steeper lots toward I-280. Expect a mix of original mid-century houses and remodels with second stories.

Change here mostly means remodeling. The General Plan says expansions, second-story additions and accessory units are common in Millbrae, requires design review of new houses and large second-story additions, and asks additions to limit blocking a neighbor's primary bay view from main rooms (Policy LU-3.4). On these slopes, the plan's hillside rules on drainage, erosion control and grading also apply.