Overview
About Classics at Lake Forest
The Classics at Lake Forest covers 28.4 acres and holds 189 homes on thirteen streets, with a median lot of 3,535 square feet, the second smallest detached lot median in Lake Forest. The city's land use layer gives 11.6 acres inside the boundary the low density residential designation and half an acre open space, while the zoning layer classes twelve acres as high density residential.
The city's pool layer records six backyard pools, nine solar installations and two spas inside the boundary, with no shared pool. Irvine Ranch Water District supplies the water and street sweeping runs Thursday afternoons. Almost all addresses feed Lake Forest Elementary, with two on the Rancho Canada Elementary roll, and every home goes to Serrano Intermediate and El Toro High.
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How Classics at Lake Forest was built
The Classics carries the city's name, and the city's name is a piece of accidental history. Dwight Whiting, a Boston man who bought most of Rancho Canada de los Alisos in 1884, planted roughly 400 acres of eucalyptus near Serrano Creek as a lumber crop meant to draw settlers to a village he called Aliso City. The lumber business failed. The trees did not, and they were still standing, much denser, when Occidental Petroleum began building houses among them in the late 1960s and dug two artificial lakes to go with the forest.
The Classics is a compact community of 189 homes on 28 acres and thirteen streets, with a median lot of 3,535 square feet, the second smallest detached lot median of the fifty Lake Forest communities on this site. The city's build year layer puts it in the 1980s.
By the Numbers
Classics at Lake Forest by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Classics at Lake Forest lifestyle
Lake Forest keeps 31 parks open from dawn to dusk. The Lake Forest Sports Park and Recreation Center opened in November 2014 on 86 acres, with 57 of them given over to sports fields, and the city runs the largest free skatepark in Orange County at Etnies Skatepark.
Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park holds 1,575 acres of county open space against the north edge of the city, and the city's trail map carries 49 named trails.
Across the whole city the general plan sets 3,756 acres to residential use and 3,065 acres to open space and parks, which is why so much of Lake Forest reads as green from the ridgelines.
Schools
Schools serving Classics at Lake Forest
The City of Lake Forest property record splits the Classics at Lake Forest between two elementary schools, assigning 196 addresses to Lake Forest Elementary and 2 to Rancho Canada Elementary. Every address goes to Serrano Intermediate and El Toro High. All four campuses are Saddleback Valley Unified.
9-12 · 1,902 students
7-8 · 868 students
K-6 · 640 students
FAQs
Common questions about Classics at Lake Forest
How big is the Classics at Lake Forest?
The community covers 28.4 acres on the city's published boundary and holds 189 homes on 198 parcels across thirteen streets.
What size are the lots?
The median parcel measures 3,535 square feet, which is the second smallest of the thirty-three Lake Forest communities on this site where a parcel median describes a detached lot rather than shared ground. Only Lakeside Park, at 1,419 square feet, is smaller.
When was the Classics laid out?
Tract 12278 was recorded on June 17, 1985 and tract 12297 on May 12, 1986, both surveyed by Mark S. Anderson, the first engineered by the SP Group and the second by Greiner Engineering.
Which schools serve the Classics at Lake Forest?
Almost all of it feeds Lake Forest Elementary: the city's property record assigns 196 addresses there and 2 to Rancho Canada Elementary. Every address goes to Serrano Intermediate and El Toro High. All four campuses are Saddleback Valley Unified.
Is there a community pool?
No. The city's pool layer records six pools inside the boundary and every one is a private backyard pool, alongside two spas and nine solar installations.