The City is required by California State law to adopt a Housing Element as part of its General Plan. Fremont's 2023–2031 Housing Element, adopted in early 2023, identifies a need for approximately 13,000 new residential units, with over 7,000 designated as affordable.

To help meet this housing goal, Fremont’s Housing Element includes a commitment to redevelop a 9.59-acre City-owned site located at the southwest corner of Fremont Boulevard and Decoto Road (4178–4268 Decoto Road). The City has owned this site since 1989, and since 1992, a portion has been leased to a commercial nursery on a month-to-month basis.

The project, titled the Fremont-Decoto Land Development Plan (LDP), will result in residential development on the site, which will include affordable housing options.

Latest Project Information

On February 4, 2025, the Fremont City Council approved executing service agreements for community outreach, technical project design, and environmental clearance services for the Fremont-Decoto LDP project. For more information, view the staff report.

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Site Information

The two-lot, 9.59-acre surplus site is located at 4178–4268 Decoto Road within the Centerville Community Plan Area. The site features approximately 500 linear feet of frontage on both Fremont Boulevard and Decoto Road, arterial roadways which provide primary means of access through Central Fremont and serve over 20,000 vehicles per day.

The site has been owned by the City since 1989, when it was acquired for the State Route 84 extension project. The highway extension project was rescinded in 2007, and the site was declared surplus by the Fremont City Council in 2013. Since 1992, a commercial nursery has been leasing a portion of the property on a month-to-month basis. Areas of the site not used by the nursery are currently vacant.

The site is located within an urban area and surrounded by a mixture of residential and commercial uses. Parcels adjacent to the intersection of Fremont Boulevard and Decoto Road that border the site are improved with retail, restaurant, service station, and dental office uses; at the rear of the site, across an Alameda County Flood Control District channel, is a neighborhood of single-family homes; across Decoto Road is a neighborhood of single-family homes and townhouses; and across Fremont Boulevard is a vacant, 14.4-acre Fremont Unified School District-owned parcel. A mixed-use development containing eight residential units was recently approved for the vacant, 0.32-acre 4092 Decoto Road property abutting the site.

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Background Information