Huntington Landmark

Huntington Landmark covers 143.4 acres measured against the boundary the city publishes, and the city address layer records 1,257 addresses inside it. Of those, 1,238 are typed residential and 1,239 carry a unit designator, so essentially every home here is an attached condominium. The assessor record classes all 1,238 as condominium units and shows the form plainly: 660 of the dated structures are single story against seven that are two. Twenty-four named streets serve the community and run to 5.62 miles inside the line, most of them courts and circles rather than through routes.

The homes are consistent in size in a way few communities are. The assessor's median building is 1,072 square feet, and the tenth to ninetieth percentile band runs only from 817 to 1,287 square feet, a spread of under 500 feet across more than twelve hundred homes. City zoning and the general plan both read residential low density across the whole boundary. The association describes itself as a private active senior community of 160 acres and 1,238 units with approximately 2,000 residents, age-designated at 55 and over. Its unit count matches the city's residential address count exactly.

Huntington Landmark was built by Signal Landmark between 1972 and 1986 as an age restricted community for residents 55 and over, and it holds 1,238 attached townhomes and condominiums on about 143 acres roughly a mile from the ocean. The county record matches that count exactly, with 843 of the homes finished in the 1970s and 395 in the 1980s. The clubhouse carries a fitness center, a ballroom, ceramics and woodworking studios, two pools and tennis and pickleball courts, and residents run more than twenty five clubs out of it.

The name of the builder is worth pausing on. Signal Landmark is the same company that bought most of Bolsa Chica in the 1960s and proposed a large housing and marina development across the wetland. The state objected, and in 1970 the company set aside 300 acres to create the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. California later bought a further 880 acres from Hearthside Homes, the renamed developer, in 1997, and a 147 million dollar restoration finished in 2006 reopened an inlet to the Pacific for the first time since the marsh was dammed in 1899.