The City published the draft Environmental Impact Report for the Five Wounds Urban Village Plan in mid-August. Comments on the draft plan itself are due Friday, October 2. The umbrella document folds four older village plans into one 427-acre map: Five Wounds, Little Portugal, Roosevelt Park, and 24th and William. The box runs from King Road to Coyote Creek and from Lower Silver Creek down to East San Fernando, East William, and East San Antonio. The reason for the rewrite is the planned 28th Street / Little Portugal BART station.
Housing capacity inside that box would rise from about 2,022 units to 8,022. Job capacity would fall from about 4,855 to 2,500. Commercial floor area is pegged at 750,000 square feet. Buildings could reach 270 feet near the station, with a public plaza and mobility hub on the BART site. Density is meant to sit on East Julian and McKee and inside the four old village cores, not on every bungalow lot.
That swap, more homes and fewer office jobs, matches what the city has been doing near Diridon and Downtown San Jose. East Santa Clara already has Five Wounds Portuguese National Church, small grocers, and a lot of one- and two-story commercial. The plan text talks about keeping existing neighborhoods, small businesses, and housing while new construction lands at the station. Whether 270-foot towers next to that church feel like preservation will be the argument at Planning Commission and Council later this year.
VTA is a partner. Berryessa / North San José BART already exists a few miles north. This station would put Little Portugal on the same line. If the EIR holds and Council adopts the plan in late 2026, the zoning change is the thing that lets those 6,000 extra units get entitled. The buildings themselves will take years after that.
Send comments to 5W@sanjoseca.gov by October 2. The draft plan and EIR live on the city’s Five Wounds Urban Village page.
City page: https://www.sanjoseca.gov/fivewoundsuvp
YIMBY summary: https://sfyimby.com/2026/09/draft-eir-published-for-five-wounds-urban-village-plan-san-jose.html
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