Overview
About Palmia
Palmia covers 123.6 acres and records 640 addresses on 639 parcels with no unit designators, at a median lot of 0.106 acres. Twenty four streets run 5.11 miles inside the boundary and the naming is Mediterranean and Mexican at once: Alanya, Andorra, Azores, Canaria, Capri, Medina, Serreta, Tarraco and Valletta sit beside Acapulco, Cancun, Manzanillo, Mazatlan, Miramar and Monterey. The general plan carries 115.2 acres at 3.5 to 6.5 homes an acre and 7.7 acres as recreation and open space.
The flood layer places 123 acres in zone X. Saddleback Valley Unified serves the boundary, and the district assigns campuses through an address locator rather than a published boundary map, so confirm the campus for a specific address at svusd.org before it matters to an offer.
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How Palmia was built
Palmia opened in 1989 under a different name. When it first sold the community was known as the Villages of Palmia, and the association still shows the photograph from that year's marketing brochure.
It was built as an age restricted community and remains one, guard gated and open to residents aged 55 and older. The homes went up between 1988 and 1999, so a walk through it crosses eleven years of changing floor plans on 123.6 acres holding 640 addresses.
By the Numbers
Palmia by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Palmia lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Palmia
Saddleback Valley Unified serves Palmia. The district publishes assignment through an address locator rather than a boundary map, so the campuses below are its schools inside Mission Viejo with enrollment from the 2024-25 federal count.
9-12 · 2,475 students
9-12 · 1,566 students
9-12 · 200 students
7-12 · 80 students
7-8 · 713 students
7-8 · 595 students
K-6 · 540 students
K-6 · 444 students
K-6 · 390 students
K-6 · 362 students
K-6 · 308 students
K-6 · 263 students
K-12 · 149 students
FAQs
Common questions about Palmia
Who developed Palmia?
The Mission Viejo Company. Its name appears in the owner's certificate on Tract 13327, recorded on 30 March 1988 and surveyed by Jan M. Fuller in June 1987.
Why was the first map recorded if it created no building sites?
Tract 13327 states on its face that it was made for the sole purpose of financing and that the lots created are not building sites. Maps of that kind divide land so it can be secured and sold on, and the building lots follow in later tracts.
When was Palmia built?
The financing map went on record in March 1988 and the building maps followed between 1988 and 1990. Morse Consulting Group under Gary W. Dokich signed thirteen of the fifteen recorded maps inside the boundary.
Where do the street names come from?
Two families at once. Alanya, Andorra, Azores, Canaria, Capri, Medina, Serreta, Tarraco and Valletta are Mediterranean, while Acapulco, Cancun, Manzanillo, Mazatlan, Miramar and Monterey are Mexican coastal towns, and Tract 12630 lays the second group out along its private streets.
Which schools serve Palmia?
Saddleback Valley Unified. The district assigns campuses through an address locator rather than a published boundary map, so confirm the campus for a specific address with the district at svusd.org.