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Our office will be closed December 23-January 3. Open space preserves remain open!

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Projects Funded by Our Grant Programs

The Open Space Authority's Grant Programs help connect people to nature in their neighborhoods by funding urban projects and programs throughout our jurisdiction. Learn more information about these projects located throughout Santa Clara Valley below.

Map of Grant Projects

Grant Projects

A cyclist rides their bike along a paved trail next to a park with a green lawn, picnic tables, small trees, and shrubs, under a vast blue sky with white fluffy clouds

Martial Cottle Park

he Open Space Authority contributed funds towards the County of Santa Clara's efforts to open a 288-acre urban park on the Martial Cottle Family Ranch.
Grant Program Type
20% Funding Program
A slope covered with golden grass and green trees, where the remains of an old wooden barn sit

Santa Teresa County Historic Park

In 2002 the City of San José, in partnership with Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation, used a $900,000 grant from the Open Space Authority to purchase property to expand Santa Teresa County Park Historic Area.
Grant Program Type
20% Funding Program
A grassy swale and lawn area with shrubs and small trees, in the distance is a small pedestrian bridge and play structure

Stojanovich Family Park

The Open Space Authority contributed funds towards the development of a 1.3-acre park in Campbell.
Grant Program Type
20% Funding Program
A gravel trail crosses two blue ponds with green water plants, towards trees and newer development housing in the distance

South Page Ponds

An allocation of $109,000 from the Open Space Authority to the City of Campbell helped fund trails, landscaping and benches on the site of percolation ponds along Hacienda Avenue.
Grant Program Type
20% Funding Program
An asphalt trail winds through a park with green grass, a split-rail fence, and smallish trees

Selma Olinder Park

The Open Space Authority granted the City of San José $600,000 to construct a segment of Coyote Creek Trail as part of the Selma Olinder Park development.
Grant Program Type
20% Funding Program
An asphalt walking trail stretching straight away from the camera, bordered by low split-rail fences and bark chip landscaping and trees

Three Creeks Trail

The Open Space Authority contributed funds totaling over $3.2 million towards the purchase of land along the former Union Pacific railroad in the Willow Glen neighborhood of San José.
Grant Program Type
20% Funding Program
Two children on tricycles ride away from the camera on a dirt and gravel pathway bordered by native plants and large trees

Ulistac Natural Area

The Open Space Authority funded two phases of improvements for this 40 acres of open space along the Guadalupe River in Santa Clara in 1999 and again in 2004.
Grant Program Type
20% Funding Program
A paved bike trail with yellow and white lines curves up a slight incline with tall grasses on the right and a concrete wall with relief sculptures and a fence top on the left

San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail

The Open Space Authority granted $55,000 to the City of Santa Clara for the first phase of the San Tomas Aquino/Saratoga Creek Trail.
Grant Program Type
20% Funding Program