Maison de Fleur

Maison de Fleur is 10.8 acres on the far west edge of Fullerton where every street is a flower: Camellia Lane, Flame Flower Lane, Primrose Lane and Wistaria Lane. The record holds 108 addresses on three parcels with 0.44 miles of private street. The city zones 10.49 acres R-3 Limited Density Multiple Family Residential and 0.33 acres Public Land, with the general plan carrying the residential ground as Greenbelt Concept.

All 10.8 acres sit in the Very High fire hazard severity class and the liquefaction zone covers 2.9 of them. The schools closest to the boundary belong to Buena Park's districts, with Charles G. Emery Elementary 0.74 miles out at 646 students and Gordon H. Beatty Middle 0.88 miles at 641, and Sunny Hills High 1.79 miles at 2,337. Mail goes to ZIP 92833 and the boundary sits in council district 1.

This is the far northwest corner of Fullerton, pressed up against the Buena Park line with Rosecrans Avenue along the south edge and Beach Boulevard the nearest big road to the west. The history worth knowing here is underfoot. The low ridge these homes sit on is the Coyote Hills, and the ground just across Rosecrans spent years being dug into rather than built on. It was known as the Emery Borrow Pit, and between 1956 and 1973 highway crews hauling fill out of the hillside cut straight through fossil beds.

The homes are recent by comparison. Roughly a hundred attached townhomes went up here around 1990, two stories with garages attached, on four short lanes that were all given one naming theme to match the French name of the community, which means house of flowers: Camellia, Primrose, Wistaria and Flame Flower. The hills did not all get built on. East of here the rest of the Coyote Hills ridge is still open ground, including about 510 acres held by Chevron that make up the largest undeveloped piece of land in north Orange County.