Coco Palms

Coco Palms is a compact 8.2 acres on Commonwealth Avenue in south Fullerton, holding 148 addresses on three parcels, 114 of those addresses carrying a unit number. Commonwealth Avenue is the only street name the city's address layer records inside the boundary and no street here is private. The zoning is R-3 Limited Density Multiple Family Residential across all 8.16 mapped acres, under a Medium Density Residential general plan designation.

Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts stands 0.08 miles from the boundary with 820 students, the closest a middle school sits to any of the fifty Fullerton neighborhoods on this site. Commonwealth Elementary is 0.22 miles out at 268 students and Troy High 0.71 miles at 2,504. Mail goes to ZIP 92831 and the boundary sits in council district 5, the district that covers downtown.

Coco Palms was built in 1964 along Commonwealth Avenue, which makes it one of the oldest communities Fullerton draws on its own boundary layer. It is single story throughout, spread low across 8.2 acres, which is why it holds around 148 addresses on ground that a later developer would have stacked.

The name belongs to its decade. Much of Blue Hawaii was shot at the Coco Palms on Kauai in 1961, three years before ground was broken here. Hawaii had become a state in 1959, and Polynesian styling ran through Southern California apartment building for most of the decade that followed. A single story complex with a pool and a clubhouse, named Coco Palms and finished in 1964, sits squarely in that fashion.