Woodside Highlands, Portola Valley
This woodland retreat started life as just that -- a getaway with summer cottages for 1920s San Franciscans eager to escape the cold of the city's fog.
Today, Woodside Highlands retains its open feel, beginning at Portola Road with Santa Maria Road winding up and around to the Hayfields pastures. Many of the homes, situated on 1/4- and-1/2-acre lots, have views of the bay or surrounding mountains and fields.
It's a country neighborhood where no two houses are exactly alike.
In his memoir about motorcycling in Portola Valley, former Woodside Highlands resident and current homeowner Russell Targ describes how he and his wife Joan dreamed of a cluster development that would also include a commercially viable organic garden to benefit the community.
After discovering an idyllic parcel rising 800 feet above the valley floor, in 1976, along with Nancy Hunt Kiesling, the Targs purchased 80 acres which they dubbed the Hayfields.
They eventually gained town approval for a planned-unit development that would allow nine homes on 28 acres, with the remaining land reserved for agriculture, or a "farm field," Mr. Targ says.
FACTS
CHILD CARE & PRESCHOOLS: Windmill Preschool, 4141 Alpine Road, Portola Valley; Ladera Community Church Preschool, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley; Carillon Preschool at Christ Church, 815 Portola Road, Portola Valley; New Horizons (after school care), 200 Shawnee Pass, Portola Valley
FIRE STATION: Woodside Fire Protection District, Portola Valley Station, 135 Portola Road, Portola Valley
LOCATION: Portola Road and Wayside Road to Santa Maria and Russell avenues
NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Woodside Highlands Improvement Association, president, Richard Crevelt, 650-851-4518.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Portola Valley School District --
Ormondale School (K-3), 200 Shawnee Pass, Portola Valley; Corte Madera School (4-8), 4575 Alpine Road, Portola Valley
Sequoia Union High School District --
Woodside High School, 199 Churchill Ave., Woodside
SHOPPING: Nathhorst Triangle, Portola Road at Alpine Road; Village Square, 884 Portola Road; Ladera Shopping Center, 3130 Alpine Road, Portola Valley
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*Courtesy of PaloAltoOnline.com
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