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Sylvan Park, Mountain View Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide
Mountain View's southeast corner, boxed in by El Camino Real, Highways 85 and 237 and the Sunnyvale line: a 9-acre city park ringed by 1970s houses, 1960s duplexes, townhomes and two mobile home parks.
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Calculated in your browser from MLS data for Sylvan Park: El Camino Real, Hwys 85 and 237 and the Sunnyvale line (approximate). Sales are single-family homes, townhomes and condos.
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Homes for sale, for rent and recently sold in Sylvan Park
Every active listing, rental and closed sale in Sylvan Park from the MLS, updated automatically, with a map of the neighborhood outline.
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Listings come from MLSListings and other MLSs through IDX and show their listing brokerage; confirm details with the listing agent. The map outline is the neighborhood boundary used by our listing search (Sylvan Park: El Camino Real, Hwys 85 and 237 and the Sunnyvale line (approximate)); it may not match every local definition.
the story
How Sylvan Park came to be
Sylvan Park is defined by its edges. Highway 85 runs along the west side, Highway 237 along the north, El Camino Real along the south, and the Sunnyvale city line on the east, so the neighborhood works like a self-contained pocket of about 220 acres. Palo Alto Online's neighborhood profile uses exactly those four edges, and the neighborhood shares its name with the 9-acre city park at its center. City documents also use the name Sylvan-Dale: it is the name of a park-planning area and of a small precise plan district near El Camino Real. Dale Avenue itself is just south of El Camino.
County assessor records mapped by the city (fiscal 2017) show the area filling in over several decades. A handful of houses on Alice Avenue and Moorpark Way date from the late 1940s and early 1950s. The 1960s brought duplexes and small apartment buildings on Sevely Drive, Borello Way, Muir Drive, Luce Court, Tahoe Terrace, Moraga Drive and Sylvan Avenue, plus larger complexes on Dana Street and El Camino Real; nearly every pre-1981 multifamily building here dates from that decade. Foxborough Drive and Hedgerow Court followed in 1976 as a tract of two-story houses (the city's paseo records cite Tract No. 5774 for the Foxborough walkway), Bourbon Court in 1978, and the Rainbow Drive townhouse complex around 1980.
Glenborough Drive, Sullivan Drive, Tami Way and Tiana Lane do not appear in the pre-1981 assessor layer, which points to construction after 1980. The newest corner is in the northeast, where a townhome enclave with streets named for painters (O'Keefe Way, Magritte Way, Chagall Street, Hockney Avenue, Miro Avenue, Kahlo Street, Dali Avenue and Wyeth Street) sits beside Evelyn Park, land the developer dedicated to the city.
streets and homes
The streets and the houses
Sylvan Avenue is the spine, running north from El Camino Real past the park to Moorpark Way, with bike lanes the length of it. East Dana Street and Moorpark Way curve across the north half, and short loops and courts branch off them: Glenborough and Foxborough drives and Hedgerow Court on the park's north and west sides, Sullivan Drive and Devoto Street to the south, and Rainbow Drive running toward Highway 85.
The single-family streets around the park hold the biggest houses. In the assessor data the 1976 houses on Foxborough Drive and Hedgerow Court are mostly two-story, about 2,250 to 2,450 sq ft at the median, with three or four bedrooms, on lots of roughly 7,600 to 10,000 sq ft zoned R1-7 and R1-10. The older houses on Alice Avenue are one-story, around 1,650 sq ft, on lots of about 8,000 sq ft. A few very large lots on Moorpark Way and Sylvan Avenue carry the city's R1-10 zoning with a Special Design (sd) overlay.
About a fifth of the land is mobile home zoning. The city's neighborhood-group list includes Sunset Estates (about 144 spaces) and Moorpark Mobile Homes (about 137), the two mobile home parks Palo Alto Online describes. Most of the rest is duplex and apartment zoning (R2, R3 and R4), where 1960s two-unit buildings line Sevely Drive, Borello Way and Muir Drive, the Rainbow Drive complex has about 140 units, mostly one and two bedrooms at around 1,050 sq ft, and the painter-named townhomes sit on individual parcels of about 750 sq ft.
streets in sylvan park
- Sylvan Avenue
- East Dana Street
- Moorpark Way
- Rainbow Drive
- Glenborough Drive
- Foxborough Drive
- Hedgerow Court
- Sullivan Drive
- Devoto Street
- Tami Way
- Tiana Lane
- Charmain Circle
- Sevely Drive
- Borello Way
- Muir Drive
- Moraga Drive
- Luce Court
- Tahoe Terrace
- Bourbon Court
- Alice Avenue
- Margo Drive
- O'Keefe Way
- Magritte Way
- Chagall Street
- Hockney Avenue
- Miro Avenue
- Kahlo Street
- Dali Avenue
- Wyeth Street
parks and places
Parks, shops and landmarks near Sylvan Park
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Sylvan Park
A 9.3-acre city park at Sylvan Avenue and Devoto Street, larger than most Mountain View neighborhood parks, with tennis courts, open lawn used for soccer, volleyball and walking paths. Palo Alto Online reported in 2018 that the city holds a summer outdoor movie and a Fourth of July picnic and parade here.
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Evelyn Park
A small city park beside the painter-named townhome streets near Evelyn Avenue and Bernardo Avenue, on land the developer dedicated to the city.
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Foxborough and Hedgerow paseos
City-maintained paseos (walkways) run off Foxborough Drive and Hedgerow Court in the 1970s tract; the city's records tie the Foxborough walkway to Tract No. 5774.
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East El Camino Real
Shops, restaurants and services line El Camino Real along the south edge, within a few blocks of most streets here.
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Stevens Creek Trail
The paved trail runs north-south just west of Highway 85, past downtown Mountain View and on toward Shoreline.
schools and commute
School districts and getting around
School districts
Sylvan Park is in the Mountain View Whisman School District for TK-8 and the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District for grades 9-12. There is no district campus inside the neighborhood; the closest is Landels Elementary at 115 West Dana Street, just west across Highway 85. Attendance boundaries change, so check the exact address with each district before you buy.
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Getting around
- VTA buses: Route 22 runs on El Camino Real with stops at Sylvan Avenue (westbound) and the Americana (eastbound); Rapid 522 stops at El Camino and Bernardo, just past the east edge.
- VTA light rail: Whisman station is about 0.7 mile north of the middle of the neighborhood, across Highway 237 (straight line; longer on foot). The old Evelyn light rail stop on Pioneer Way, just north of Highway 237, closed in 2015.
- Caltrain: Mountain View station is about 1.2 miles northwest of the middle (straight line); Sunnyvale station is the other option, east across the city line.
- Driving: Highways 85 and 237 meet at the northwest corner, El Camino Real is the south edge, and Central Expressway is just north of Highway 237.
- Bikes: Sylvan Avenue, East Dana Street and Moorpark Way have bike lanes and Rainbow Drive is a city bike route; the Stevens Creek Trail runs just west of Highway 85.
nerd notes
Buying or selling in Sylvan Park: what we check
Buying here
- Zoning changes block by block: R1-7 and R1-10 single-family streets, a Special Design (sd) overlay on a few large lots, R2 and R3 duplex and apartment blocks, mobile home zoning and the Sylvan-Dale precise plan around Bourbon Court. Check what applies to the parcel and its neighbors before you plan an addition, ADU or SB 9 split.
- For townhouses and condos (the Rainbow Drive complex, the painter-named streets near Evelyn Avenue), read the HOA documents, the reserve study and any special assessments.
- If you are looking at a home in one of the two mobile home parks, get the park rules and find out exactly what you would own and what you would lease before you write an offer.
- Lots along the west and north edges back onto Highways 85 and 237; visit at commute hours to judge freeway noise for yourself.
- Pull the flood map for the exact parcel. The city's FEMA layer shows the area in Zone X, part of it marked reduced risk due to a levee and part as 0.2 percent annual chance.
Selling here
- If your house is on Foxborough, Hedgerow or Glenborough, buyers will compare it with the newest single-family streets nearby; have permits and dates for remodels, roofs and systems ready.
- For duplexes, document both units clearly: separate meters if any, permits, current leases and which unit you would deliver vacant.
- Townhouse sellers should order HOA documents early so buyers can review them during their contingency period.
- Put the park in the listing with a measured walking distance; for many streets here it is the biggest everyday feature.
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faq
Sylvan Park questions, answered
Where is Sylvan Park?
In the southeast corner of Mountain View, bounded by El Camino Real, Highway 85, Highway 237 and the Sunnyvale city line. It takes its name from the 9.3-acre city park on Sylvan Avenue.
Is Sylvan Park the same as Sylvan-Dale?
Mostly. Sylvan-Dale is a name the city uses for a park-planning area and a small precise plan district here, and some listings use it as the neighborhood name. Dale Avenue itself is just south of El Camino Real.
What kinds of homes are in Sylvan Park?
A real mix: 1970s two-story single-family houses around the park, a few 1940s-50s one-story houses, 1960s duplexes and apartments, townhouses and condos, and two mobile home parks.
How do you get to Caltrain from Sylvan Park?
Mountain View station is about 1.2 miles northwest of the middle of the neighborhood (straight line), and Whisman light rail station is about 0.7 mile north across Highway 237. VTA buses on El Camino Real connect to both Mountain View and Sunnyvale.
Which school districts serve Sylvan Park?
Mountain View Whisman School District for TK-8 and Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District for high school. Boundaries change, so confirm the exact address with the districts.
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