Planning Commission to get look at proposed East Vallejo housing development

by John Glidden | glid24@protonmail.com | September 20, 2025

VALLEJO – The Vallejo Planning Commission is tentatively scheduled early next month to get its first look at a proposed housing development that would include 130 single-family homes built on four unused little league fields in East Vallejo, according to a recent legal notice published in the Vallejo Times-Herald.

The seven-person commission will meet on October 6 to review an application from KB Home North Bay, LLC, which purchased the 17.71 acres of land from the Vallejo school district for more than $8 million in 2022. The land is located along Rollingwood Drive and Benicia Road and was once home of East Vallejo Little League baseball.

Commissioners will be asked to act on several items including a vesting tentative map, a development review, design review, landscape review, and on a minor use permit, the same legal notice states.

This isn’t the first time KB attempted to build homes on the site. In 2006, the developer agreed to buy the property for $17.5 million, however, citing the 2008 financial crisis, and the city’s entry into bankruptcy, KB Homes stopped making its annual $3 million payment to the district in 2008. Plans at that time included 214 homes.

Both times, the property was placed on the market, as way for the school district to close budget shortfalls.

In June, the school district announced that it was exiting state receivership after over 20 years. The district entered receivership in 2004 after receiving a $60 million bailout from the California Legislature.

Prior to the planning commission review, the city’s Design Review Board approved the project’s design elements in December 2024.

Two months ago, the Design Review Board approved the design elements of a nearby housing development in the Glen Cove neighborhood.

During a July 10 meeting, the Design Review Board got a look at the project called “Vista Cove,” which would include 51 detached single-family homes on 20 acres of undeveloped land surrounded by Interstate-780, the California Highway Patrol Office along Benicia Road, and the Benicia State Park. The project is located near Shady Lane and Wildflower Avenue.

That project is expected to go before the Planning Commission for review with the Vallejo City Council having final approval.