Pacific Ranch

Pacific Ranch covers 42.4 acres measured against the city's published boundary, and it is the densest community of its size on the register: 569 residential addresses inside 42 acres, with 567 of them carrying a unit designator. The assessor classes 558 as condominium units and eight more as multi-family dwellings. Eleven named streets serve the community across 1.73 miles, seven of them named for game fish or the sea, among them Pompano, Coho, Yellowtail, Bluefish and Seahorse, with Ranch Lane and Huntington Street completing the loop.

City zoning and the general plan both read the whole boundary as residential medium density. The assessor's median building is 1,340 square feet with a tenth to ninetieth percentile band of 1,079 to 2,475, and only five addresses in the community carry a pool on the record, which is what one expects where recreation is held in common rather than lot by lot. The whole community sits outside the Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction. McCallen Park lies within 250 meters, and the city bus stop layer records eight stops within the same distance.

Pacific Ranch is 569 homes across about 42 acres, of which 556 were finished in the 1980s beginning in 1984. It was built as a mix of villa condominiums and townhomes, and the county holds five recorded maps over the ground, all surveyed by Walden and Associates, from TR 12027 on 9 August 1984 through TR 12526 on 12 January 1987.

The street names here are a small joke on the word ranch. Pompano, Coho and Yellowtail are fish, Seabluff and Sunray are the coast, and only Ranch Lane itself keeps the promise on the sign. The ground under all of them grew lima beans, celery and sugar beets before any of this, on a plain where Holly Sugar ran a processing plant that was later converted into an oil refinery.