Peralta Hills East

Peralta Hills East runs along a single street, Copa de Oro Drive, over 38.3 acres and eight tenths of a mile. The city records 48 addresses on 40 parcels, every one detached single family, and the median lot area is 34,848 square feet, four fifths of an acre. The general plan designates the whole boundary Residential Estate at up to 1.5 homes to the acre, and all 38.2 zoned acres are Hillside Single-Family Residential at a 22,000 square foot minimum lot.

The city's footprint layer measures the houses at a median 6,835 square feet of ground floor, the largest of any community in this section, and it records thirteen detached garages and outbuildings alongside the 22 dwellings it types. Thirty-three of the 40 parcels carry a pool on the assessor record, better than four in five and the highest proportion here. The boundary lies wholly in ZIP 92807 and in flood zone X, and it sits in Orange Unified School District.

Peralta Hills is older than Anaheim Hills around it. There were scattered houses up here as early as the 1920s, decades before Louis Nohl sold his cattle range and the planned community began. When the tracts started coming, residents organized through the Peralta Hills Estates Improvement Association and fought for a one acre minimum lot, which is why the properties here run one to two acres and more while a standard Anaheim Hills lot is six to eight thousand square feet. Roland Krueger, Clyde Schlund and James Nagamatsu were among the homeowners who worked with the city to hold that line, and Nagamatsu went as far as having his attorney file incorporation papers for Peralta Hills.

The result is that Peralta Hills East has one street, Copa de Oro, and forty eight houses on it. Copa de Oro means cup of gold. Thirty three of those homes have a pool and the typical property runs about four fifths of an acre. The building record here spans a century, from 1900 through 2002, because these were custom houses put up one at a time rather than a tract delivered in a season.