Worcester Park & Vista del Monte, Los Gatos Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide

County assessor data for the 512 single-family houses inside the outline puts the median year built at 1960, the median living area at about 2,440 square feet and the median lot at about 10,400 square feet. About 39 percent have two or more floors, lower than on the steeper hillside streets to the south. About 103 houses predate 1941 and about 9 percent were built in 2000 or later.

Think of it as two parts. Between Los Gatos Boulevard and Hollywood Avenue is a grid of older streets, including Charles Street, Wheeler Avenue, Yosemite Way, Los Robles Way, Harding Avenue, Fillmer Avenue, Whitney Avenue, Simons Way, Panighetti Place, Stacia Street and the northeast side of Loma Alta Avenue, where houses range from the 1920s to recent rebuilds. East of it, the streets curve with the hill: Vista del Monte loops through the Los Gatos Terrace and Ridgewoode tracts with Cerro Chico and Vista del Campo off it, Nina Court, Pinta Court and Via Santa Maria sit near Kennedy Road, and Vista de Sierra, Vista del Prado and Vista del Mar run down toward Loma Alta Avenue and Spreckles Avenue. Houses on Vista del Monte, Cerro Chico and Vista del Campo date mostly from about 1957 to 1960 in county data, and those on Worcester Loop and Worcester Lane from 1978 and 1979.

Most lots are zoned R-1:8 (about 290 houses, including Vista del Monte, Harding Avenue, Fillmer Avenue and Cerro Chico) or R-1:10 (about 140, including Worcester Loop, Hollywood Avenue, Pinta Court and Whitney Avenue). The Los Gatos Boulevard frontage is R-1D, the Town's single-family downtown zone; Los Robles Way, Bond Court and part of Stacia Street are R-1:20; and the Crescent Drive, Los Cerritos Drive and Jared Lane lots at the east edge are HR-1, a Hillside Residential zone. In the R-1 zones the basic limits are a 30-foot height, 40 percent lot coverage and side setbacks of 8 feet (R-1:8) or 10 feet (R-1:10). Only 19 of the 512 houses are on the Town's Hillside Area map, so most remodels here follow the regular R-1 rules and the Town's Residential Design Guidelines rather than the hillside standards. Town parcel data records a secondary dwelling unit on about one lot in nine.