Sorrento Hills

Sorrento Hills is 31.6 acres reached from five streets, Elmhurst Place, Lennox Circle, Lexington Drive, Morningside Circle and Nottingham Place, with 108 addresses on 126 parcels and 0.84 miles of private street. The city zones 27 acres PRD-O Planned Residential Development with an Oil Overlay and gives 4.5 acres to road, with the general plan calling 27.1 acres Low-Density Residential.

The state fire hazard layer places 28.4 of the 31.6 acres in the High class. The Fullerton Sports Complex is at 560 East Silver Pine Street, listed with baseball and softball, bleacher seating, picnic tables, a playground, recreation trails and restrooms. Beechwood Elementary is 0.4 miles out with 872 students in grades K through 8, Laguna Road Elementary 0.7 miles at 623 and Fullerton Union High 1.09 miles at 1,880.

The houses came very late by Fullerton standards. The whole neighborhood went up in a single year, 1987, and all 108 homes carry that date with no spread at all, which is why the architecture is so consistent from one end to the other. You come in off Brea Boulevard by way of Panorama Drive and onto Lexington Drive, the spine the rest of the streets hang off. The association keeps a private park and a sport court for residents.

The street names are worth a second look. In a city full of Spanish place names and pioneer surnames, this pocket is entirely English: Lexington, Nottingham, Elmhurst, Lennox and Morningside. It is a small piece of 1980s marketing that still shapes how the neighborhood reads from the car.