Highland Greens

Highland Greens covers 30.4 acres and the city's address layer records 375 addresses inside the boundary across 387 parcels, on 1.92 miles of street. The lots are the smallest of the twenty eight neighborhoods in this guide at a median of 0.028 acres, and 27.7 of the acres carry the Low Density Multifamily Residential zone.

Twenty one street names run inside and the set reads Scottish: Argyle, Cameron, Elliott, Erskine, Ferguson, Firth, Fletcher, Galloway, Glasgow, Glengarry, Gordon, Graham, Hamilton, Henderson, Hunter, Inverness, Keith and Kerr, with Beach Boulevard on the edge. Just over half the boundary, 17.1 acres of 30.4, falls inside the published liquefaction zone rather than all of it. The neighborhood feeds Charles G. Emery Elementary, Gordon H. Beatty Middle and Sunny Hills High.

Highland Greens was built in 1964 and holds about 374 homes on roughly 30 acres off Beach Boulevard, which makes it one of the earliest large attached housing communities in Buena Park and by some distance the densest neighborhood in the city. The homes share walls and garages and are set around lawns and a pool rather than individual front yards, a pattern California was only beginning to build at scale in the mid sixties.

The names are Scottish and they are not subtle about it. Argyle, Erskine, Ferguson, Fletcher, Galloway, Glasgow, Glengarry, Gordon, Graham, Hamilton, Henderson, Hunter, Keith, Kerr, Elliott and Cameron are clans and places; Firth is the Scottish word for an estuary; Inverness is both a Highland town and one of the oldest names in golf. That last one is the giveaway. Los Coyotes Country Club opened a short distance east in 1957 to a Billy Bell design, and the neighborhood beside it took a Scottish name and a Scottish street list, because Scotland is where the game comes from.