Eastwood

Eastwood is one of Irvine's smaller villages. The City draws it at 313 acres, a single block bounded by Portola Parkway to the north and Irvine Boulevard to the south, and 92620 covers all but a fraction of it. The Eastwood Village Community Assn. governs a 243 acre footprint that lies entirely inside that block and covers about three quarters of it, administered by Keystone Pacific Property Management. Three neighborhood associations sit inside the master at Helena, Avalon and Delano, so an address in one of those tracts answers to a second set of governing documents on top of the master, and the owner portal sits behind a resident login, with no assessment figure published.

The village was designed around four parks, and all four carry their names on City parcels inside the boundary. Mosaic Park and Eucalyptus Park hold the association's swim facilities, each with a Junior Olympic pool, a wading pool and a spa, along with a half-court basketball court and a tot lot under shade structures. Eucalyptus adds a club room and Mosaic adds a sand volleyball court. Grand Trellis Park is the quiet one, a great lawn with shade structures and picnic tables on a paseo. Eastwood Neighborhood Park at 130 Frontier is the public city park, 6.1 acres with two tennis courts, a children's play area, restrooms and a picnic area with eight tables and four barbecues. A 48 foot wide paseo runs along the edge of the village to the Hicks Canyon Trail, and an underpass links Eastwood directly to the Jeffrey Open Space Trail, which the City runs 3.5 miles through Irvine. Eastwood Elementary stands at 99 Meander inside the boundary and feeds Sierra Vista Middle and then Northwood High, all three Irvine Unified.

Large heritage trees from the site and the established eucalyptus windrows were worked into the plan rather than cleared, and about 10,500 new trees were planted across the village's 300 acres and 1,800 homes. The Irvine Company's landscape architect Richard Roy put the final count above 15,000 and singled out an 80-foot silk floss tree saved from the Irvine Ranch that anchors Grand Trellis Park at the entrance. "These trees are part of the land," he said. "We preserve them because they're part of our heritage." One of the village's own parks is called Eucalyptus Park, which tells you what the windrows meant to the plan.

The village was drawn to be walked, with internal paths and trails running to the school and parks at its center and a paseo 48 feet wide along its edge that joins the Hicks Canyon Trail and, by underpass, the Jeffrey Open Space Trail. Its neighborhoods carry California town names, most of them northern: Petaluma, Marin, Piedmont, Calistoga, Helena, Solano, Avila, Delano, Belvedere and Avalon. It was finished in the second half of the 2010s, complete with its parks and its trees by the time the Irvine Company profiled it in 2019, and the company now lists it as sold out.