Palmia & Oak Ridge, San Jose Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide

This strip of valley floor between Highway 85 and Santa Teresa Blvd came into San Jose in small pieces. City annexation records list about 18 annexations here between 1958 and 1971, most of them in the city's 'Oak Grove' and 'Alamitos' series, and city sewer records date about four in five street mains to the 1960s. City tract records list 27 recorded tract maps, so street names change in clusters from block to block: Calero Ave, Henderson Dr and Ariel Dr in one group, Conestoga Way, Safari Dr and Bridle Way in another, Arabian St, Clydesdale Ave and Roan St in a third.

Palmia is the newer piece. Two later annexations, in 1996 and 1997, cover the land around Palmia Dr, and city sewer records date its streets (Palmia Dr, Pala Mesa Dr, Palm Valley Blvd, La Strada Dr and the plant-named streets such as Primrose Dr, Gardenia Dr, Coffeeberry Dr and Huckleberry Dr) to 2000-2001. The city's association map lists the Oakridge Palmia Neighborhood Association across most of the area and the Ariel View association on the west side.

The name is easy to mix up. Oak Ridge here is the Oak Grove district's elementary school on Bufkin Dr and the association's 'Oakridge Palmia' label; the Oakridge shopping area and the Oakridge & Foxchase guide are about 2.5 miles west near Almaden Expwy. The city's Growth Areas map marks Santa Teresa Blvd at Snell Ave as an urban village with no approved plan yet, so change is planned for those corners rather than the interior streets.