Overview
About Lakeside
Lakeside is 12.8 acres above Laguna Lake with 30 addresses on 30 parcels, one home to a lot, reached from four versions of a single name: Lakeview Circle, Court, Terrace and Way. The city zones 11.05 acres R-1-20 One-Family Residential, where the minimum lot is 20,000 square feet, and a further 1.73 acres R-1-15, under a Low-Density Residential general plan designation.
Laguna Lake Park sits at 3120 Lakeview Drive on 28.5 acres, open since 1952, with parking, picnic tables, recreation trails and restrooms. All 12.8 acres of the boundary fall in the Very High fire hazard severity class. Laguna Road Elementary is 0.73 miles out at 623 students, Hermosa Drive Elementary 0.8 miles at 302, D. Russell Parks Junior High 1.11 miles at 854 and Sonora High 1.62 miles at 1,779.
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How Lakeside was built
After 1910 the Bastanchury family turned the sheep range into citrus, planting roughly three thousand acres of orange and lemon trees on the hills northwest of town, a grove that was billed for years as the largest in the world. The lake was working equipment rather than scenery, a modest watering pond that became a water source for the groves. The family ran a school on the ranch for the children of the Mexican families who picked the fruit, and the pickers lived in six small villages of about thirty families each, scattered across the property. The ranch did not survive the Depression. By 1936 the land had passed to the bondholders, who reorganized it as the Sunny Hills Ranch Company, and that is where the name of this whole side of Fullerton comes from.
The 30 houses here came much later, on four short private lanes that all take the same name and all face the same way, Lakeview Circle, Court, Terrace and Way. The lake below them carries a local legend of its own. For decades people traded stories about something large moving in the water. When crews drained the lake in September 2004 for a restoration they finally found it, a hundred pound alligator snapping turtle the neighborhood had nicknamed Old Bob, almost certainly a pet that outgrew whoever bought it.
By the Numbers
Lakeside by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Lakeside lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Lakeside
Lakeside sits in Fullerton Joint Union High and Fullerton Elementary. The campuses below are those districts' schools within two miles of the neighborhood, with enrollment from the federal count. Which campus a given address attends is set by each district's attendance boundaries, which the districts do not publish as a map, so confirm the assignment with the district before relying on it.
9-12 · 2,337 students
9-12 · 1,779 students
7-8 · 854 students
K-8 · 892 students
K-8 · 872 students
K-6 · 700 students
K-6 · 623 students
K-6 · 610 students
K-6 · 372 students
K-6 · 302 students
FAQs
Common questions about Lakeside
How big is Lakeside?
Lakeside covers 12.8 acres. The city's address record holds 30 addresses inside the boundary and the parcel record holds 30 parcels, one to each address.
When was Lakeside subdivided?
Tract 5422 was recorded with Orange County on October 27, 1964, with C. J. Queyrel as the licensed surveyor. The county index names no engineering firm on that map.
How is Lakeside zoned?
The city zones 11.05 acres R-1-20 One-Family Residential, which sets a 20,000 square foot minimum lot, and 1.73 acres R-1-15, where the minimum is 15,000. The general plan calls all of it Low-Density Residential.
Is there a park at Lakeside?
Laguna Lake Park is at 3120 Lakeview Drive, 28.5 acres, open since 1952, twelve years before the neighborhood was recorded. The city's facility directory lists parking, picnic tables, recreation trails and restrooms.
Is Lakeside in a fire hazard zone?
All 12.8 acres of the boundary fall in the Very High fire hazard severity class on the state layer the city publishes.