Meredith Manor

Meredith Manor is 9.3 acres on Pomona Avenue in south Fullerton, and Pomona Avenue is the only street name the city's address record carries inside the boundary. There are 180 addresses here on two parcels, 160 of them numbered as units, and no private street. The city zones all 9.27 mapped acres R-3 Limited Density Multiple Family Residential under a Medium Density Residential general plan designation.

Mail goes to ZIP 92832 and the boundary sits in council district 5. Woodcrest Elementary is 0.49 miles out at 303 students, Maple Elementary 0.67 miles at 315, Richman Elementary 0.75 miles at 470, Nicolas Junior High 1.3 miles at 539 and Fullerton Union High 1.34 miles at 1,880. No hazard layer the city publishes reaches the boundary.

The corner these buildings face was one of the landmarks of the postwar boom. Orangefair Shopping Center opened in 1956 at the southeast corner of Harbor and Orangethorpe, a block from the front of the community, part of a wave of centers built directly on former orange and walnut groves. Those groves were what Fullerton had been known for. Charles Chapman bought an orchard on the east side of town in 1894, his Valencia oranges did well in the local climate, and the city ended up with more orange groves than any other municipality in the United States before the housing swallowed them.

The eighteen buildings here were finished in 1963, two story attached homes with detached garages, laundry on site and a shared pool, which was the standard package for that moment in Southern California. The homeowners association that runs the 160 units was created in 1973, ten years after the buildings themselves went up. Downtown Fullerton and the transportation center, where Metrolink and Amtrak trains still stop, are about a mile north.