Huntington Harbor Village HOA

Huntington Harbor Village covers 15.1 acres measured against the city's published boundary and holds 130 residential addresses among the 131 the address layer records inside the line. It is the only community on the city's association register whose ground is zoned Manufactured Home Park, and the assessor classes 122 of the addresses here as mobile or manufactured homes. No address carries a unit designator. The boundary fills 99.9 percent of its own convex hull.

Eight named streets serve the community across 0.92 miles and every one is Hawaiian: Lahaina, Waimea, Kohala, Napili, Poipu, Kailua, Makaha and Haiku. City zoning reads 99.9 percent Manufactured Home Park while the general plan designates the same ground residential low density, one of the few places on this register where the two layers describe the land differently. The community sits outside the Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction. Harbour View Park and Humboldt Beach both lie within 250 meters, and the bus stop layer records two stops within the same distance.

This pocket sits on made ground. Everything around it was tidal marsh and duck club country until 1960, when Lewis W. Douglas Jr. of Christiana Oil Corporation began planning a residential marina across 860 acres of swamps and sloughs and hired the architect William L. Pereira to draw it. The Lomita Gun Club had been founded on these sloughs in 1903, and at least thirteen hunting clubs once worked the Bolsa Chica and Huntington Harbour wetlands. Construction began in 1963 and the yacht club opened in 1965.

Huntington Harbor Village came later, and all at once. Its 130 homes sit on a single 15 acre parcel just inland of the water, which the county dates to 1972. What gives it away is the street plan, because every street here carries a Hawaiian name: Lahaina, Waimea, Kohala, Napili, Poipu, Kailua, Makaha and Haiku. That was a common move for Southern California builders in the early 1970s, and in Huntington Beach it lands on ground with a real Hawaiian connection. The first documented surfing in Orange County happened at the dedication of the Huntington Beach pier in June 1914, when the former Waikiki resident George Freeth gave a demonstration of surf board riding.