Valley Park Apartments

Valley Park Apartments holds 160 homes on 9.25 acres fronting Euclid Street, all addressed on that one street and all carrying a unit suffix. The county assesses the property as a single land parcel of 403,125 square feet carrying about 170,135 square feet of building, so the homes are not separately assessed. One bus stop sits inside the boundary.

The general plan designates the whole site Medium Density Residential, which allows up to 15 homes to the acre, and FEMA places all of it in Zone X as an area with reduced flood risk due to levee. Garden Grove Unified files this land in study area 1 of its own school locator, which feeds Mamie L. Northcutt Elementary, Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate and Los Amigos High.

One hundred and sixty homes on more than nine acres fronting Euclid Street, built in 1969. Euclid is one of the long county roads, and an apartment community of this size on it in 1969 is a direct product of the decade Fountain Valley spent turning from farms into a city.

The turn was deliberate rather than accidental. Talbert incorporated as Fountain Valley in 1957 on a vote of 91 in favor, out of 160 ballots cast by 189 registered voters, and the first council then commissioned a master plan and refused to approve a single tract until every element of it was adopted. The first houses were finished in 1963. By 1970 the population was close to 32,000, and by 1980 it had passed 55,000.