The Westridge

The Westridge is the largest of the twenty eight La Habra communities in this guide by a wide margin, 286.7 acres against 55.9 for the next largest. The city's address record carries 404 addresses inside the boundary and the association register records 400 units, with 400 addresses typed Single Family Home, two typed Open Space and one Utility. Thirty public streets run inside across 3.91 miles of centerline and every name but two is the surname of a golfer: Hogan, Nelson, Palmer, Nicklaus, Player, Snead, Sarazen, Trevino, Watson, Casper, Demaret, Boros, Middlecoff, Mangrum, Littler, Runyan, Hagen, Armour, Farrell, Ferrier, Floyd, Ford, McSpaden, Sanders, Smith, Cooper, Weiskoff and Woods.

The La Habra Hills Specific Plan governs 260.9 of the acres and the general plan carries 414 lots as Low Density. Park land sits inside the boundary: 8.36 acres of Vista Del Valle Park fall within it, and the separate 9.7 acre Vista Del Valle open space on West Risner Way, one of the community's own streets, adjoins it. The community feeds Las Positas Elementary over most of the boundary and Olita Elementary over the remainder, Imperial Middle over most of the boundary and Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate over the remainder and Sonora High.

The ridge along the north edge of La Habra is the wall of the pass the Portola expedition came through on 30 July 1769, the pass that gave the town its name. The hillside was drawn into building lots as early as 1917, eight years before La Habra incorporated, and then sat unbuilt for eighty years while the flats below it filled with orchards and then houses.

The Westridge went in as one piece in 1998, 400 homes across 286.7 acres, and the 18 hole golf course they wrap around opened the following year. Robert Muir Graves and Damian Pascuzzo designed it, running the layout up and down the slope, with the ground high enough to look out over both Orange and Los Angeles counties and across to the San Gabriel Mountains.