Community
Current Events
Seely
The Draft EIR is posted again March 19, 2024 thru May 3, 2024.
Comments are due May 3rd, 2024.
Schools
River Oaks is in the Santa Clara Unified School District.
Elementary: Abram Agnew Elementary School
3534 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA 95134
Middle: Dolores Huerta Middle School
3556 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA 95134
3500 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95134
(669) 369-4410
High: Santa Clara
3000 Benton Street, Santa Clara, CA 95051
(408) 423-2600
Other resources:
Discuss local parenting issues at riveroaksparents.
2760 E. Trimble Road Family Resource Center
Location
River Oaks is located in:
River Oaks Neighborhood (google maps)
North San Jose Area
City of San Jose city phone numbers
Santa Clara County county phone numbers
State of California
The housing developments RONA serves are:
Other housing developments on or near River Oaks Parkway are
Non-Emergency
For the City of San José
SanJose311 for reporting non-emergency: https://sanjose.custhelp.com/ or use the app https://sanjose.custhelp.com/app
If you filed a report with 311 and aren't seeing a result, please contact Hugo Jimenez at hugo.jimenez@sanjoseca.gov and let him know. He'll follow up.
For issues on 237
If there are issue on 237 or other highways, please report to: Caltrans at https://csr.dot.ca.gov
If you don't see results, you can email Anurag Pal, Asm. Alex Lee's Office at Anurag.pal@asm.ca.gov or Jaria Jaug at jaria.jaug@asm.ca.gov with the CSR#.
For Issues concerning Coyote Creek and Valley Water
Call Dick Santos at: 408-234-7707
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
SJPD's online crime reporting form
San Jose Police Department Phone Listing
A printable list of SJPD Phone Numbers
River Oaks area Crime Reports
Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers their TipSubmit website.
Neighborhood Watch discussion group: riveroaks-neighborhood
A map of Registered Sex Offenders.
City of San Jose Fire Station 29
Emergency Clinic: McCarthy Medical Center or Santa Clara Urgent Care
Hospitals:
O'Connor Hospital (Central San Jose)
El Camino Hospital (Mountain View)
Kaiser Permanente (various locations)
Regional Medical (West San Jose)
Washington Hospital (Fremont)
Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Packard Children's Hospital (Palo Alto, teaching hospital)
WARNING: the River Oaks area is at high risk for soil liquefaction in a major earthquake. Please be prepared! See also maps of various scenarios and checklist of home improvements.
Transportation
SJ Traffic Enforcement Unit (send complaints here!)
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.
VTA Flex has multiple stops in our area.
(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
Traffic issues related to the new Levi's Stadium can be sent to district4@sanjoseca.gov. Also, you can view online live traffic cams. And here's the calendar of events for the stadium.
Utilities
Please save water.
The source of your water. Our water comes from SFPUC which delivers water from the Hetch Hetchy Watershed. Further information can be found here: Water Quality Report
Comcast Cable (television and internet)
AT&T U-verse Try before you buy: reports are it is very slow in ROP area due to poor copper connection to residential units. Other DSL-based providers suffer similar last-mile problems at the higher DSL speeds.
Parks and Trails
River Oaks Park (playground, tennis, basketball, grass, picnic)
Iris Chang Park (at Epic Way & Coyote Creek)
Moitozo Park (grass, exercise, picnic)
Vista Montaña Park (basketball, soccer fields)
future Agnews Park
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)
Found/Lost pet: sanjoseanimals.com
to arrange for confined stray animal pickup (408) 794-7297 and press the * key.
Help support controlling the feral cats in our area, or adopt a rescued kitten: TownCats
When times get tough:
call 211 or visit 211scc.org for free, non-emergency community, health and disaster information
Red Cross Silicon Valley Chapter
Affordable housing assistance: housingtrustscc.com.
Coyote Creek Real-Time Water Data
Coyote Creek 2017 Flood Information and Photos
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.
Storm Issues, like flooding: please contact (408) 794-1900 weekdays between 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., or (408) 277-8956 at all other times. Please note that this service is limited to infrastructure in the public right-of-way. Issues on private property remain the responsibility of the property owner.
Shopping
Google searches for:
Nearby Shopping Districts:
Rivermark (Safeway, various restaurants, limited parking)
@First (Target, various restaurants)
North Park Plaza (HMart, various restaurants)
Sprouts@Brokaw (Sprouts, Ross, HomeGoods various restaurants)
Santa Clara Square Marketplace (Whole Foods, various shops, various restaurants)
McCarthy Ranch (Walmart, etc.)
Milpitas Square (Ranch 99, various restaurants)
Great Mall (outlets, Home Depot, Kohl's, Century 20 Theatres)
Milpitas Town Center (Safeway, Staples, etc.)
Mercado Shopping Mall (AMC Mercado Theaters, Walmart, TJMaxx, HomeGoods, various restaurants)
The closest Trader Joe's is 1306 Great Mall Pkwy, Milpitas
Classifieds: Craigslist South Bay
Reviews of Service Providers (Contractors, Remodeling, etc): Diamond Certified
Politics
Election Information
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
City Level
(408) 535-4900
200 E. Santa Clara St.
San Jose, CA 95113
Term Expires 12/31/2024
District 4 Councilman David Cohen
(408) 535-4904
200 E. Santa Clara St.
San Jose, CA 95113
Term Expires 12/31/2024
County Level
District 3 County Supervisor Otto Lee
(408) 299-5030
supervisor.lee@bos.sccgov.org
County Government Center
Tenth Floor - East Wing
70 West Hedding Street
San Jose, CA. 95110
Term Expires 12/31/2025
State Level
District 10
(916) 651-4010
State Capitol, Room 3086
Sacramento, CA 95814
Term Expires 12/31/2026
District 25
(916) 319-2025
State Capitol – Room 3126
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0025
Tel: (916) 319-2025
Fax: (916) 319-2125
Term Expires 12/31/2024
Federal Level
House District 17
Santa Clara Office
3150 De La Cruz Blvd, Suite 240
Santa Clara 95054
Phone: 408-436-2720
Fax: 408-436-2721
Washington DC Office
306 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2631
Term Expires 12/31/2020
B03 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3553