Royal Pools by Adams designs and builds custom inground swimming pools across the 94025 zip code, which covers essentially all of Menlo Park plus its unincorporated pockets. We are a Diamond Certified pool construction company based about 40 minutes down the Peninsula on Camden Avenue in San Jose, and we have been building Bay Area pools since 1969. Our five-step program takes your project from first sketch to first swim.
94025 looks simple on an envelope and is anything but underneath, which is precisely why builder selection matters here. The zip spans downtown Menlo Park, Allied Arts, the Willows, Belle Haven, and the Sharon Heights hills, about 40,700 residents across 14,600 households with a median home year of 1963, and it includes unincorporated West Menlo Park, where pool permits go through San Mateo County rather than the city. Water is even more layered: Menlo Park Municipal’s Upper Zone serves Sharon Heights and its Lower Zone the flats east of El Camino, Cal Water’s Bear Gulch district covers downtown and West Menlo, and a slice of the Willows draws from a local co-op. We confirm both your permit authority and your water provider from your address before design begins, then handle whichever combination applies. The city’s published pool rules give clean setbacks, at least 5 feet from rear and side lot lines, and its foothills rule requires a soils report for hillside pools, with grading and drainage plans mandatory for every Sharon Heights project. Flat lots in the Willows and Allied Arts build conventionally; the hills get our engineering-first process. Either way, one team owns the whole path.
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Royal Pools by Adams is part of the Adams Pool Group, a family-run organization that has been building and finishing pools since 1953. Every 28 Palms project is backed by the same leadership team that oversees every Royal pool in the Bay Area.
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We build across the whole Menlo Park zip:
The established blocks around Santa Cruz Avenue and the Stanford border.
The family streets toward the Palo Alto line, where we confirm the water provider per address.
The hillside neighborhoods along I-280.
The unincorporated pocket where permits run through San Mateo County, a path we handle routinely.
Our citywide Menlo Park page.
Essentially all of Menlo Park: downtown, Allied Arts, the Willows, Belle Haven, and Sharon Heights, plus unincorporated West Menlo Park.
No, and this is the zip’s biggest trap. City addresses permit through Menlo Park’s Building Division via its Accela portal, but unincorporated West Menlo Park permits through San Mateo County’s separate system. We confirm your jurisdiction from your address before design and handle either path.
It depends on the neighborhood: Menlo Park Municipal Water’s Upper Zone serves Sharon Heights and its Lower Zone the flats east of El Camino Real, Cal Water’s Bear Gulch district serves downtown and West Menlo Park, and part of the Willows is on a local co-op. We confirm your provider during design.
Per the city’s swimming pool requirements: no pool in the required front setback, at least 5 feet from any rear or side lot line, and at least 10 feet from the street-side line on corner lots. We design to your exact zoning envelope from the first sketch.
Yes, by rule. The city requires a soil investigation and report for pools in its foothills area and grading and drainage plans for every Sharon Heights project, with runoff capped at pre-development levels. Our hillside process is built around exactly those requirements.
Comfortably. The zip’s valley-floor neighborhoods offer conventional digs and standard access, with the city’s heritage tree rules shaping siting on mature lots, and with a 1963 median home year, plenty of original pools here are ready for a remodel or replacement.
Prefer to plan in person? Our San Jose showroom at 2258 Camden Ave is about 40 minutes from 94025: take I-280 South to Highway 85 South and exit at Camden Avenue. Get directions from 94025 →
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Royal Pools by Adams | 2258 Camden Ave, San Jose, CA 95124 | (408) 371-8000 | Mon-Fri 8am-4pm | CSLB #278052
