Woodside Brea

Woodside Brea runs 61.7 acres in the hills north of the city and holds 121 addresses on eight streets, six of them courts named for Scottish families and places: Forbes Drive carries 22, then Davidson, Buchanan, Chisholm, Cameron, Lennox and Dundee, with North Desert Canyon Road completing the set. The parcel layer counts 139 parcels, 133 of them residential, on lots running to a median of 0.137 acres with structures to a median of 2,398 square feet and three bedrooms.

The city's tree inventory records 122 street trees along the community's 1.85 miles of road, and Rof Visch, a 1987 work by Charles Gray, stands inside the boundary. The general plan splits the ground between 42.4 acres of Low Density Residential and 9.4 acres of public facilities. Fifty-one point two classified acres fall in the Very High fire hazard severity class and the landslide layer covers 14.8. Woodside Brea is in Brea Olinda Unified, with Falcon Academy of Science and Technology 0.24 miles away holding 544 students and Brea Olinda High 0.41 miles with 1,676.

The city records 121 homes across sixty-two acres, built in 1987 and 1988 at a typical size around 2,398 square feet on lots of about a seventh of an acre, with a substantial share of the boundary left as public facility and open ground rather than built on. Just over fifty of the sixty-two acres fall in the state's Very High fire hazard class and the landslide layer covers about fifteen, both of which belong in an early insurance conversation.

The street names are Scottish. Buchanan, Cameron, Carmichael, Chisholm, Davidson, Forbes and Lennox are clan and family names, and Dundee Court is a city on the Tay, which makes this the only corner of Brea that reads like a Highland roll call. They sit next to Kings Canyon Road and Desert Canyon Road, borrowed from the canyon theme of the tract immediately south, so a driver crosses from Utah and the Sierra into Scotland in about two blocks. A sculpture called Rof Visch by Charles Gray stands inside the boundary and the city counts 122 street trees here, most of them London plane.