Citrus Lane

Citrus Lane holds 99 homes across 20.2 acres on six streets, with a median lot of 6,571 square feet. The Serrano Creek Trail runs through it on the city's trail map. The city's land use layer gives 3.8 acres inside the boundary the low density residential designation and 1.1 acres open space, and the zoning layer carries 4.4 acres of open space alongside a small neighborhood commercial parcel.

The city's pool layer records 36 backyard pools inside the boundary, 20 spas and twelve solar installations, and no shared pool. That is more than one private pool for every three homes. Irvine Ranch Water District supplies the water, street sweeping runs Thursday morning, and the city's Neighborhood Watch roster lists Orchard Rim Lane, Treeline Lane, Groveside Lane and Skybird by name.

Citrus is the right word for this ground. After the cattle era ended, the money in the Saddleback Valley came out of orchards, and the Harvey Bennett Ranch House of 1908, preserved at Heritage Hill Historical Park nearby, is kept specifically to represent the citrus farming days of the early twentieth century. Before that the land was Rancho Canada de los Alisos, granted to Jose Antonio Serrano in 1842, worked as cattle range, and lost after the drought that began in 1863.

Citrus Lane is small, 99 homes on 20 acres, and the street names keep the orchard idea going: Orchard Rim Lane, Treeline Lane, Groveside Lane and Skybird, all of which the city lists by name on its Neighborhood Watch roster. The Serrano Creek Trail runs through it, the build year layer puts the houses in the 1970s, and there are 36 backyard pools inside the boundary, better than one for every three homes.