Crystallaire

Crystallaire covers 19.4 acres measured against the city's published boundary and sits entirely inside the Holly-Seacliff Specific Plan area. The address layer records 126 addresses inside the line and types 98 as residential, all classed single-family by the assessor, with one carrying a unit designator. Six named streets serve them across 0.72 miles and every one of the six is Spanish: Calera Lane, Amalia Lane, Siena Drive, Paloma Drive, Latigo Drive and Marisa Drive.

The assessor's median building is 3,104 square feet, and the size band here is the narrowest on the entire register: the tenth to ninetieth percentile runs from 3,047 to 3,193 square feet, a spread of under 150 feet across 98 homes. The median lot is 5,126 square feet and ten dwellings carry a pool. City zoning reads the whole boundary as specific plan designation and the general plan designates 76.3 percent residential medium density. The community sits outside the Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction, and Green Park, Baca Park and Huntington Central Park East all lie within 250 meters.

Crystallaire reached for Spain and Italy where its neighbors in this corner of Huntington Beach reached for golf. Calera, Amalia, Siena, Paloma, Latigo and Marisa make up the street plan across about 19 acres, and the 98 homes were built between 1998 and 2000, 59 of them in the 1990s and 39 as the century turned.

The land beneath was oil for most of the previous eighty years. Much of this part of the city was held by the Huntington Beach Company, wholly owned by Chevron. The Huntington A-1 well began producing on 24 May 1920, the field reached 59 producing wells at about 16,500 barrels a day by October 1921, and by 2000 it had given up more than a billion barrels. California Resources Corporation works what remains.