Overview
About The Waterfront
The Waterfront covers 19.1 acres measured against the city's published boundary and sits entirely inside the Downtown Specific Plan area. The address layer records 234 addresses inside the line and types 184 as residential, and the assessor classes all 184 as condominium units. Eighteen named streets serve the community across 1.17 miles, and the naming is Spanish without exception: Andalucia, Aldea, Balerma, Cieza, Estepa, Ubeda, Veleta, Vera, Alanis, Armilla, Baeza, Alcazar, Elda, Lorca, Prado, Ronda, Osuna and Lorenzo.
The whole boundary sits inside the city's Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction, in appeal zone 4. City zoning reads all of it as specific plan designation and the general plan designates all of it residential high density, the only community on this register carrying that designation across its entire area. The assessor's median building is 2,664 square feet with a wide tenth to ninetieth percentile band of 1,840 to 3,459, and one address carries a pool. The city bus stop layer records eight stops within 250 meters of the line, and no city park land falls inside the boundary or within that distance.
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How The Waterfront was built
The Waterfront is the residential half of a resort development on the ocean side of the coast highway, and the resort came first. The Waterfront Beach Resort opened in July 1990 at a cost of 55 million dollars, designed by Wimberly, Allison, Tong and Goo of Newport Beach and owned by Robert Mayer Corp, an Irvine based family company. In February 2016 the owners announced a 140 million dollar expansion, the nine story Twin Dolphin Tower opened in 2017, and the work finished at the end of 2019 with an 8,000 square foot spa.
The 184 homes here were built between 2003 and 2005 on about 19 acres, in the gap between the hotel's opening and its expansion. The streets are named after places in Spain, Andalucia, Balerma, Cieza, Estepa, Ubeda and Aldea, which fits the architecture and fits nothing else about the site.
By the Numbers
The Waterfront by the numbers
Lifestyle
The The Waterfront lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving The Waterfront
The Waterfront sits inside Huntington Beach Union High School District, and the district's own published attendance boundary places the whole community in the Huntington Beach High area. Census TIGERweb puts all of it inside Huntington Beach City School District. That district's school locator, queried at three interior points here, returned John R. Peterson Elementary and Ethel Dwyer Middle at every one.
9-12 · 2,645 students
6-8 · 884 students
K-5 · 477 students
FAQs
Common questions about The Waterfront
When was The Waterfront built?
Between 2003 and 2005. The assessor record carries a year built on 184 homes inside the boundary and every one falls in the 2000s, with a median of 2004. The single recorded map, TR 15549, was filed on 11 April 2003.
Are the homes condominiums?
Yes. The assessor classes all 184 residential addresses inside the boundary as condominium units, and the general plan designates the whole of the ground residential high density, the only community on the city's register in that position across its entire area.
Why are the streets named after Spanish towns?
All eighteen street names inside the boundary are Spanish place names, among them Andalucia, Ubeda, Baeza, Ronda, Lorca and Osuna. The recorded map, TR 15549, was surveyed by Fuscoe Engineering of San Diego and filed in 2003 under the name The Waterfront.
Is The Waterfront in the Coastal Zone?
Yes, entirely. The city's Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction layer covers 100 percent of the boundary, in appeal zone 4. The community also sits wholly inside the city's Downtown Specific Plan area.
How big is The Waterfront?
Measured against the boundary the City of Huntington Beach publishes, it covers 19.1 acres. The city address layer records 234 addresses inside it, 184 of them residential, on eighteen named streets running to 1.17 miles.