Sunny Ridge

Sunny Ridge is 31.3 acres in northwest Fullerton with 246 addresses on 311 parcels and 1.31 miles of private street. Its eight street names split between the Monterey peninsula and Spanish: Carmel Circle, Cypress Point Drive and Monterey Place on one side, Loma Vista Place, Plaza De Tierra, Plaza De Vista, Plaza Escondido and Ramada Place on the other. The city zones 30.89 acres PRD Planned Residential Development under a Low-Medium Density Residential general plan designation.

Emery Park is at 1201 Sunny Ridge Drive on 8.23 acres, open since 1980, with picnic tables and a playground. Robert C. Fisler Elementary is 0.42 miles out with 892 students in grades K through 8, Valencia Park Elementary 0.77 miles at 398, D. Russell Parks Junior High 1.1 miles at 854 and Sunny Hills High 0.78 miles at 2,337. The state liquefaction zone covers 3.4 of the 31.3 acres.

Sunny Ridge is in west Fullerton, just west of Gilbert Street and north of Malvern, and it was not built in one go. County records put Monterey Place at 1973 and 1978, Carmel Circle at 1979 and 1983, and Ramada at 1981, which is why the neighborhood is a mix of attached townhomes and detached houses rather than a single repeated plan. The lots are small, and the whole thing was laid out around shared greenbelt rather than around private yards.

Somebody in the sales office was thinking about the Monterey Peninsula. Carmel Circle, Monterey Place and Cypress Point Drive all borrow from the golf coast three hundred miles north, and they sit beside Spanish names that belong to Orange County: Loma Vista, Plaza de Tierra, Plaza de Vista, Plaza Escondido and Ramada. Reading the street signs in order is a decent summary of what a Southern California developer thought sounded like the good life in the middle 1970s.