Mallorca

Mallorca covers 63.9 acres and records 368 addresses, all with unit designators, on eight parcels. Twenty streets run 2.98 miles inside the boundary and every one is a town on the island of Mallorca: Alcudia, Alfabia, Arta, Campanet, Campos, Deya, Esporlas, Formentor, Galilea, Inca, La Puebla, Manacor, Paguera, Petra, Pollensa, Porreras, Soller and Valdemosa among them. The general plan carries 55.3 acres at 6.5 to 14 homes an acre and 8.3 acres as recreation and open space, roughly an eighth of the community.

The flood layer places 62.2 acres in zone X. Capistrano Unified serves the boundary, and the district's address locator returns Castille Elementary at 482 students, Fred Newhart Middle at 1,105 and Capistrano Valley High at 1,991 from every interior point tested.

Mallorca takes its name, and its street grid, directly from the Balearic island off Spain's Mediterranean coast. Inca, Formentor, Pollensa, Arta, Campos and Alcudia are all real towns on the island of Mallorca, carried over into this pocket of Mission Viejo as part of the Spanish naming scheme James Toepfer wrote into the master plan's design guidelines in 1964, the same rule that gave the city its mission bell streetlights and stucco walls. Most of the neighborhood's homes date to the 1970s and 1980s, the years the Mission Viejo Company was pushing development north toward the lake.

The Mallorca condominiums on Manacor, closest to Lake Mission Viejo, went up in 1979, 369 units built in a contemporary style with mountain and city-light views. By then the Mission Viejo Company had passed from the O'Neill family's founding partnership to Philip Morris, which bought a major interest in January 1970 and was sole owner by September 1972, and it kept the Spanish-named build-out going through the same years the lake itself was being finished, dedicated to the Lake Mission Viejo Association in 1977 and opened to members in June 1978.