About the River Oaks Neighborhood
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Location and Housing Developments
River Oaks is located in:
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Schools
River Oaks is in the Santa Clara Unified School District.
- Elementary: Montague
750 Laurie Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95054
(408) 988-3052 - Middle: Buchser
1111 Bellomy Street, Santa Clara, CA 95050
(408) 423-3000 - High: Santa Clara
3000 Benton Street, Santa Clara, CA 95051
(408) 423-2600 - SCUSD is looking into buying the Agnews campus for a future school site.
- Discuss local parenting issues at riveroaksparents.
- San Jose Library System
- 2760 E. Trimble Road Family Resource Center
Emergency
- from landline or highway: dial 911 in an
emergency, or dial 311 in non-emergency
from your cell phone, dial direct: emergency: (408) 277-8911, non-emergency (408) 277-8900 - San Jose Police Department
- San Jose Police Department Phone Listing
- River Oaks area Crime Reports
- Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers their TipSubmit website.
- Neighborhood Watch discussion group: riveroaks-neighborhood
- City of San Jose Fire Station 29
- Emergency Clinic: McCarthy Medical Center or Camino Medical (Sunnyvale)
- Hospitals:
- O'Connor Hospital (Central San Jose)
- El Camino Hospital (Mountain View)
- Kaiser Permanente (various locations)
- Regional Medical (West San Jose)
- Washington Hospital (Fremont)
- Good Samaritan Hospital (South San Jose)
- Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Packard Children's Hospital (Palo Alto, teaching hospital)
- Santa Clara County Emergency Alert System
- WARNING: the River Oaks area is at high risk for soil liquefaction in a major earthquake. Please be prepared!
Utilities
- San Jose Municipal Water
- San Jose Recycling & Garbage
- Santa Clara Hazardous Waste
- Pacific Gas & Electric
- Comcast Cable (television and internet)
- AT&T U-verse Try before you buy: reports are it is very slow in RO area due to poor copper connection to residential units. Other DSL-based providers suffer similar last-mile problems at the higher DSL speeds.
- Bayside Post Office
Transportation
- SJ Traffic Enforcement Unit (send complaints here!)
- San Jose Trails
- call 511 or visit 511.org for the latest traffic info
- Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
(VTA) public transit routes around
River Oaks:
- (free shuttle) 828 to the ACE Great America Station.
- River Oaks Lightrail Station
- (bus) 58 West Valley College to Alviso
- (bus) 140 Fremont BART to Mission College & Montague Expwy
- (bus) 321 Great Mall/Main Transit Center to Lockheed Martin/Moffett Industrial Park
- (bus) 330 Almaden Expwy and Camden to Tasman Drive
- and details about the 237 Express Lanes
Shopping
- Google searches for:
- Nearby Shopping Districts:
- Rivermark (Safeway, various restaurants, limited parking)
- @First (Target, Fresh-n-Easy, various restaurants)
- McCarthy Ranch (Walmart, etc.)
- Milpitas Square (Ranch 99, Asian restaurants)
- Great Mall (outlets, Home Depot, Kohl's, Century 20 Theatres)
- Milpitas Town Center (Safeway)
- The closest Whole Foods is Los Altos/Mountain View.
- The closest Trader Joe's is 635 Coleman Ave.
- Classifieds: Craigslist South Bay
- Reviews of Service Providers (Contractors, Remodeling, Doctors, etc): Angie's List
Miscellaneous
- San Jose Calendar by Mercury News
- List of City Services and the City Phone Directory
- Environmental:
- San Jose Environmental Services (water, power, recycling, etc)
- Flex Your Power
- Green Resources
- Lost pet: contact information
- Help support controlling the feral cats in our area, or adopt a rescued kitten: TownCats
- When times get tough:
- ForeclosureHelpSCC
- Second Harvest Food Bank
- call 211 or visit 211scc.org for free, non-emergency community, health and disaster information
- Red Cross Silicon Valley Chapter
- Coyote Creek Real-Time Water Data
- Affordable housing assistance: housingtrustscc.com.
- As a resident homeowner, you may notice you are in a special assessment tax called "San Jose Maintenance District #19". This pays for the landscaping along River Oaks Parkway.
Politics
Upcoming elections?- Federal and state information: vote-smart.org for 95134-2705
- County information: smartvoter.org for Santa Clara County
- City information: City Clerk's Elections page
- Mayor:
Chuck Reed
(408) 535-4800
Calendar
mayoremail@sanjoseca.gov 200 E. Santa Clara St.
San Jose, CA 95113 Term Expires 12/31/2014 - Councilmember, District 4:
Kansen Chu
(408) 535-4904
Events Calendar
District4@sanjoseca.gov 200 E. Santa Clara St.
San Jose, CA 95113 Term Expires 12/31/2012 - Other city entities of interest:
- County Supervisor, District 3:
Dave Cortese
(408) 299-5030
dave.cortese@bos.sccgov.org County Government Center
Tenth Floor - East Wing
70 West Hedding Street
San Jose, CA. 95110 Term Expires 12/31/2016
- Senate, District 10:
Ellen Corbett
(916) 651-4010
Senator.Corbett@senate.ca.gov State Capitol, Room 5108
Sacramento, CA 94248-0001 Term Expires 12/31/2014 - Assembly, District
22 (now), District 25 (after 2012):
Paul Fong
(916) 319-2022
Assemblymember.Fong@assembly.ca.gov State Capitol, Room 5135
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0022 Term Expires 12/31/2012
- House, District 16
(now), District 17 (after 2012):
Zoe Lofgren
(202) 225-3072
online email form 1401 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515 Term Expires 12/31/2012