Have you ever wondered why the entrance to Nimitz School is on Cheyenne Drive and not Cascade considering Cascade is a through street and Cheyenne is not?    Well before we built these Patio Houses, Cheyenne Drive was a through street to Sunnyvale Saratoga Road and Cascade dead ended into an Orchard.  The State of California had a law that said you could not have an elementary school that had through streets on both sides of the school.  The City decided to close Cheyenne Drive because it was a through street all the way to Hollenbeck.  The City want to stop people cutting through the neighborhoods.  So even though Cheyenne was already in, the street was closed.  This is why the lots on the south side of Castlerock Court are 20' deeper than all the other lots in this tract.

This leads to another interest story concerning a pool.  Because Cheyenne Drive was a through street, the utility lines run through the backyards of the above mentioned houses.  When the street was closed, only the paving was taken up.  All of the utilities are still in the ground and are active. Well one of these homeowners, who shall remain nameless, decided to build a swimming pool in their back yard.  The problem is that they did it without a building permit.  When the pool contractor started to dig the hole for the pool, they hit the water main running though the backyard.  It flooded the backyard and their house.  They had no way to turn off the water but to have the city come out and do it for them.

These were the 1st Patio House to be built with a 2nd story loft.  As we built the 2nd phase of 20 Patio House we slightly increased the size of the loft.