Mark III

Mark III covers 11.6 acres east of Bastanchury Road and names its streets in Spanish: Calle Grande, Via Colina, Via Hacienda, Via Portola, Via Segovia, Via Seville and Vista Grande. The record holds 145 addresses on four parcels with 0.67 miles of private street. The city zones all 11.56 mapped acres R-G Garden-Type Multiple Residential under a Low-Medium Density Residential general plan designation.

Rolling Hills Park is at 1515 East Bastanchury Road on 9.46 acres, open since 1979, with picnic tables and a playground. Rolling Hills Elementary is 0.14 miles from the boundary at 554 students, Beechwood Elementary 0.46 miles at 872 in grades K through 8, Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts 1.97 miles at 820 and Troy High 1.42 miles at 2,504. No hazard layer the city publishes touches the boundary.

The road at the bottom of this community carries the name of the family that once owned most of north Fullerton. Domingo Bastanchury was a Basque shepherd, born in 1839 in the French Pyrenees, who reached California in 1860 around Cape Horn and built up a flock of fifteen to twenty thousand head before he began buying land. He and his sons put together more than six thousand acres around what became Fullerton, and after 1910 they planted roughly three thousand of those acres in orange and lemon trees, at one point the largest citrus grove in the world. Bastanchury Road is named for them, and Mark III sits just off its north side.

The 144 attached homes here went up in 1973, two story plans with garages, arranged around a pool, spa, tennis courts and a clubhouse. The street names read as one deliberate set: Calle Grande, Vista Grande, Via Colina, Via Hacienda, Via Segovia, Via Seville and Via Portola. That last name reaches back further than the rest of Fullerton's Spanish street naming. Gaspar de Portola's expedition came through in 1769, and Father Juan Crespi's diary places its camp of July 29 near Laguna Lake in the Sunny Hills area, a couple of miles west of these front doors.