Lakeside

Lakeside covers 68.0 acres and the city's address layer records 347 addresses inside the boundary across 386 parcels, on 2.63 miles of street with lots running to a median of 0.131 acres. All 68 acres carry the Planned Development zone, one of three neighborhoods in this guide approved that way.

Eighteen streets serve it and seventeen of the names are water: Bayview, Bluesail, Charthouse, Clearwater, Coveside, Eastwind, Lakeside, Laketrail, Mariner, Seacrest, Springwater, Tidewater, Waterside, Westshore, Windward, Woodlake and Woodspring, with Dale Street on the edge. Mail carries the 90621 zip code, and the neighborhood feeds Charles G. Emery Elementary, Gordon H. Beatty Middle and Buena Park High.

Lakeside is built around an eight acre man made lake with a walking path all the way round it, a marina for small boats and fish stocked in the water. About 267 detached houses and 79 townhomes and condominiums sit inside the gates on roughly 68 acres, and the street names keep to the water: Bayview, Bluesail, Charthouse, Clearwater, Coveside, Eastwind, Laketrail, Mariner, Seacrest, Springwater, Tidewater, Waterside, Westshore and Windward.

The community was put together by Catellus Residential Group with four builders working the phases, Catellus itself on the Windsong homes, William Lyon on Arbor Cove, Pulte on Shorepointe Estates and the Olson Company on Westshore. Catellus is worth a second look, because it was created out of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's land holdings and spun off in 1989 to develop the ground along the tracks. Buena Park exists because James A. Whitaker founded it in 1887 in step with those same railroads, so the company that finally built houses on this land was the railroad's own successor.