Royal Ridge

Royal Ridge covers 35.8 acres above Nohl Ranch, on five streets over a mile: Hillsgate, Ramsgate, Royal Ridge, Via Arboles and Whitestone. The city records 65 addresses on 58 parcels, every one detached single family, and the median lot is 24,000 square feet, better than half an acre. The general plan designates 34.0 acres Residential Estate at up to 1.5 homes to the acre and 1.7 acres Residential Low.

Zoning covers 30.7 acres as Hillside Single-Family Residential at a 22,000 square foot minimum. Eighteen of the 58 parcels carry a pool on the assessor record. The city's footprint layer measures the houses at a median 3,543 square feet of ground floor, among the larger in this section. The boundary lies wholly in ZIP 92807 and in flood zone X, and Royal Ridge sits in Orange Unified School District, feeding Canyon High.

Royal Ridge takes its street names off an English map. Ramsgate is a Kent harbor town on the Channel, Hillsgate and Whitestone follow the same pattern, and Royal Ridge Drive gives the community its name. Via Arboles, the way of the trees, is the one Spanish street and it runs through from the Broadmoor-Northridge tract next door.

Royal Ridge is one of the last neighborhoods built in the Anaheim Hills program. Its sixty five houses date from 1989 through 2002, with 1990 the median year, on lots of about twenty four thousand square feet, which is better than half an acre and roughly four times a standard lot on the flats. Eighteen of them have a pool. By the time these went up, the community had long since passed fifteen thousand residents and close to a thousand acres of the surrounding hills had been handed to public agencies to stay open.