Overview
About Sailhouse
Sailhouse covers 5.5 acres off Fifth Avenue and holds 84 addresses on 92 parcels, served by two lanes: Bungalow Place and Rosemary Place. All 0.4 miles of street inside the footprint are recorded as private by the city, although the register records the association as not gated. Its gap closed footprint fills 95 percent of its own convex hull, so the two lanes and the ground between them read as one block rather than as a scatter of lots.
The city zones the whole 5.5 acres RM, multi-unit residential, with a height limit written as 28 feet on a flat lot and 33 on a sloped one, and it designates all of it for short term lodging. The 7.86 acre Grant Howald Park sits 72 feet from the boundary and the 0.62 acre Old School Park 731 feet away. None of the ground is inside the Coastal Zone. Harbor View Elementary serves the community and enrolled 344 students on the 2024-25 federal count. For the city's own administration the city places it in evacuation zone 47, park service area 11, census tract 626.42.
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How Sailhouse was built
Corona del Mar was drawn on paper in 1904, when George E. Hart bought about 700 acres of oceanfront from the Irvine Ranch and gave it a name meaning crown of the sea. F. D. Cornell, who took the unsold ground over in 1916, named the streets running down to the water after flowers, alphabetically from Acacia to Poppy, and left the cross streets numbered. Sailhouse sits at the top of that grid, on the Fifth Avenue side, next to Grant Howald Park.
It is the newest neighborhood in Corona del Mar and it was built to look like the oldest. John Laing Homes put it up with sales beginning in 2001 and construction finished around 2002, and the design brief was an Arts and Crafts village of bungalows rather than a gated tract. The lane that runs through the middle of it is called Bungalow Place and the other is Rosemary Place.
By the Numbers
Sailhouse by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Sailhouse lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Sailhouse
The Newport-Mesa Unified locator was queried at 11 real addresses inside this boundary and returned Harbor View Elementary at every one of them. That campus teaches kindergarten through sixth grade at 900 Goldenrod Avenue and enrolled 344 students on the 2024-25 federal count. The secondary grades are taught at 2101 Eastbluff Drive, which the district names as both Corona del Mar Middle School and Corona del Mar High School and which the federal directory records as one campus of 2,106 students across grades 7 to 12.
7-12 · 2,106 students
K-6 · 344 students
FAQs
Common questions about Sailhouse
When was Sailhouse built?
Tract 15829 was recorded on December 22, 2000, the most recent principal map of the twenty-four boundaries in this district. The county carries no year built on any parcel inside it.
Are the streets private?
Yes. All 0.4 miles of street inside the footprint appear on the city private streets layer, though the city records the association as not gated. The register draws the association as three lot polygons covering 5.5 acres. Closing the street rights of way between them gives a footprint of 7.5 acres, which is the shape drawn on the district map.
Can a home here be rented short term?
The city designates the whole 5.5 acres for short term lodging. The city permit register is the authority for any specific address.
What is the zoning?
RM, multi-unit residential, across the whole boundary, with a height limit written as 28 feet flat and 33 feet sloped.
Which schools serve it?
Harbor View Elementary, then Corona del Mar Middle and Corona del Mar High, at all 11 addresses tested inside the boundary. The city bikeway layer runs 0.02 miles inside the footprint, on Avocado Ave.