About the River Oaks Neighborhood
Location and Housing Developments
River Oaks Neighborhood (google maps)
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
Politics
- Federal and state level, please visit: vote-smart.org
- County-level
- County Supervisor:
Dave Cortese
District 3
(408) 299-5030
dave.cortese@bos.sccgov.org County Government Center
Tenth Floor - East Wing
70 West Hedding Street
San Jose, CA. 95110
- County Supervisor:
- City-level
- To contact members of the San Jose City Council by mail, send to:
200 E. Santa Clara St.,
San Jose, CA 95113 - Mayor:
Chuck Reed
(408) 535-4800
Calendar
mayoremail@sanjoseca.gov
Term Expires 12/31/2010 - Council Representative:
Kansen Chu
District 4
(408) 535-4904
Calendar
District4@sanjoseca.gov
Term Expires 12/31/2012 - Other city entities of interest:
- To contact members of the San Jose City Council by mail, send to:
Emergency
- dial 911 in an
emergency, or dial 311 in non-emergency
or from your cell-phone, dial direct: (408) 277-8911 - San Jose Police Department
- 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)
- Please be aware that 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
- Other city services
- 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!)
- Bike Paths around River Oaks
- Bike Paths in San Jose (6MB pdf file)
- 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
Area Information
Miscellaneous Local Information
- 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.
- San Jose Library
- Google searches for:
- Nearby Shopping Districts:
- Rivermark (Safeway, limited parking)
- @First (Target)
- McCarthy Ranch (Walmart)
- Milpitas Square (Ranch 99)
- 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
Other Notes
- Reviews of Service Providers (Contractors, Remodeling, Doctors, etc): Angie's List
- Lost pet: contact information
- Help support controlling the feral cats in our area, or adopt a rescued kitten: TownCats