Planetary Tract

Planetary Tract covers 38.1 acres and the city's address layer records 158 addresses inside the boundary across 158 parcels, one address to each lot, on 1.34 miles of street. Lots run to a median of 0.183 acres, among the largest in this guide, and the city zones 28.6 acres for 6,000 square foot one family residential lots.

Ten streets serve the neighborhood and eight are named for what is overhead: Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Venus, Polaris and Galaxy, with Planetary Drive itself and Dale Street completing the set. Mail carries the 90620 zip code, and the neighborhood feeds Glen H. Dysinger Sr. Elementary, Dale Junior High and Savanna High.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Polaris, Galaxy and Planetary itself. This is a space race neighborhood, and the street index dates it almost as precisely as a cornerstone would. Polaris is the pole star and also the missile the United States Navy first fired from a submarine in 1960; Mercury was the name on the first American manned spaceflight program. Nobody was naming suburban streets after planets before Sputnik, and few were still doing it after the moon landings.

About 158 homes sit on 38 acres here, on lots near a fifth of an acre, which is roomier than most of the city. Dale Street runs along one edge. The layout is the standard Southern California pattern of the period, single story houses on wide curving blocks with the garage facing the street.