Sommerset

Sommerset holds 126 addresses on 19.5 acres in the hills of east Brea, across nine street names: Skyline, Sommerset, Sandpebble, Woodfield, Morning Dew, Rimcrest, Sweetwater, Cobblestone and Rockridge. The parcel layer counts 129 parcels, 128 of them residential, on lots running to a median of 0.055 acres, among the smallest in the city, with structures to a median of 2,048 square feet and three bedrooms. That is a large house on a very small lot, which is the cluster pattern the P-C zoning across 19.4 acres allows.

The general plan carries 19.3 acres as Medium Density Residential. All 19.9 classified acres fall in the Very High fire hazard severity class. Sommerset is in Brea Olinda Unified, with Brea Country Hills Elementary 0.39 miles away holding 498 students, Brea Olinda High 0.74 miles with 1,676, and Olinda Elementary 0.79 miles with 649.

The Biddle Group built Sommerset between 1978 and 1981: 127 homes in four floor plans between roughly 1,500 and 2,100 square feet, behind a gate, with tennis courts, a pool, a jacuzzi and recreational vehicle parking. The city records 126 addresses on nineteen and a half acres with a typical house near 2,048 square feet on small lots, which is the trade a buyer makes for the shared grounds and the view.

The street names are all texture and elevation: Cobblestone, Sandpebble, Rockridge, Rimcrest, Skyline, Morning Dew, Sweetwater, Sunrise and Woodfield. It is the vocabulary a hillside developer reaches for when the selling point is the ridge itself rather than any history on it. Very nearly the whole boundary sits in the state's Very High fire hazard class, which is the standing condition above the Brea flats and a conversation to have with an insurer early.