Rocky Point - Nohl Ranch

Rocky Point covers 84.5 acres on the Nohl Ranch side of the hills, on fifteen streets over 2.5 miles: Emberwood, Forest Glen, Lamp Post, Mountain Glen, Oak Hill, Old Bucket, Olive Branch, Orange Creek, Pepper Creek, Ridge Gate, Rocky Point, Shady Oak, Sleepy Meadow, Valley Gate and Wishing Well. The city records 222 addresses on 212 parcels, every one detached single family, with a median lot of 11,745 square feet. The general plan designates the whole boundary Residential Low.

One hundred and seven of the 212 parcels carry a pool on the assessor record, almost exactly half. The city's footprint layer measures the houses at a median 2,499 square feet of ground floor and reads 117 as two-story, 57 as single-story and four at three. Zoning is Hillside Single-Family Residential at a 10,000 square foot minimum across 67.6 acres. The boundary lies wholly in ZIP 92807 and in flood zone X, and it sits in Orange Unified School District.

Rocky Point keeps the ranch in its name and in its streets. Old Bucket Lane, Wishing Well Lane and Lamp Post Lane are farmyard objects; Olive Branch, Orange Creek and Pepper Creek are the trees that grew here; Shady Oak, Forest Glen, Mountain Glen and Sleepy Meadow describe the country. Ridge Gate and Valley Gate mark where the gates would have been. The whole list reads like an inventory of a working ranch, which is exactly what this was.

Anaheim Hills itself began on 30 October 1970, when Santa Anita Consolidated took deed to 4,200 acres of the ranch to build a planned community, and a Texaco Ventures joint venture took over the residential land in August 1971. The first neighborhood, Westridge, opened in July 1972, and the city bought a separate 300 acres for a golf course that Richard Bigler laid out and that opened the same year. Rocky Point is one of the bigger boundaries in the hills, eighty four acres and two hundred and twenty two homes built between 1977 and 1987 with 1978 the median year. A hundred and seven of them have a pool, which is close to one in two, and the lots average around eleven thousand seven hundred square feet.