Overview
About Pelican Hill
Pelican Hill covers 132.72 acres of Newport Coast in 7 separate parts on the boundary the City of Newport Beach publishes for it, and the city address layer records 138 addresses inside that line across 18 streets. Eighteen streets, and the names read as a catalog of the site: Premiere Point, Canyon Rim, Canyon Terrace, Fairway Point, Sailview, Harbor Light, Sea Greens, Rim Ridge, Seashell, Sunset Harbor and Horizon. The median of the 177 parcels the city draws here runs 23,830 square feet. The city records 174 buildings inside the boundary carrying 134 dwelling units, and the city registry marks the association gated.
The city draws Pelican Hill in seven separate parts, and the median parcel inside it measures 23,830 square feet, the largest of the twenty eight associations Newport Coast files. The city land use layer files most of the ground as Planning Area 1B - Residential Medium Density. Newport-Mesa Unified serves the whole boundary, 132.7 acres on the county district clip. The district locator, probed once per 300 foot grid cell inside the boundary, returns Newport Coast Elementary and Corona del Mar Middle and High School.
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How Pelican Hill was built
Pelican Hill is the name of a golf course, a resort and a neighborhood, and the neighborhood came first. Its 136 houses were built between 1991 and 2002 on former Irvine Ranch land, ground that runs back to Rancho San Joaquin, sold in 1864 by Jose Sepulveda to James Irvine and his partners after the drought, and held by the Irvine Company from 1894 onward. Building on the coast only became possible after a 1988 agreement that preserved more than 6,000 acres of continuous open space in exchange for 1,600 acres of private land, with construction starting in 1990.
The resort arrived much later. It broke ground in 2005, reopened its golf club in 2007 after a redesign, and opened to guests on November 26, 2008. Owners who had been on this hill since the early 1990s watched a hotel appear below them fifteen years after they moved in. The San Joaquin Hills toll road had already opened in November 1996 with an exit at Newport Coast Drive, which is what made the whole area reachable in the first place.
By the Numbers
Pelican Hill by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Pelican Hill lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Pelican Hill
Newport-Mesa Unified serves Pelican Hill. Clipping the county school district layer to this boundary returns 132.7 acres in Newport-Mesa Unified and none in any other district. The district’s own school locator was probed at 49 real addresses inside the boundary, one to each 300 foot grid cell rather than at a handful of interior points, and returned the same campuses at every address it answered for. Newport Coast Elementary, 6655 Ridge Park Road, Newport Beach, teaches grades TK-6 and the federal count recorded 429 students there in 2024-25. Corona del Mar Middle and High School share one campus at 2101 Eastbluff Drive, teaching grades 7 through 12, and the federal count records the two together at 2,106 students.
TK-6 · 429 students
7-12 · 2,106 students
FAQs
Common questions about Pelican Hill
How big is Pelican Hill?
The City of Newport Beach draws Pelican Hill Community Association as 7 parts covering 132.72 acres, measured against the city’s own published polygon rather than any acreage attribute. The shape runs 41,595 feet around and fills 70.2 percent of its own convex hull, which is a measure of how compact it is.
How many homes are in Pelican Hill?
The city address layer records 138 addresses inside the boundary and the city building layer records 174 buildings carrying 134 dwelling units between them. The city registry lists 138 residential units for the association. Those three counts agree closely.
Is Pelican Hill gated, and what streets does it hold?
The city registry records the association as gated. The address layer names 18 streets inside the boundary. They are Premiere Point, Canyon Rim, Canyon Terrace, Fairway Point, Sailview, Pelican Hill Circle, Harbor Light and Sea Greens and others.
Which schools serve Pelican Hill?
Newport-Mesa Unified. The county district layer clipped to this boundary returns 132.7 acres in Newport-Mesa Unified, with no part in another district. The district’s school locator, probed at 49 addresses inside the boundary one to each 300 foot grid cell, returned Newport Coast Elementary for grades TK-6 and Corona del Mar Middle and High School for grades 7 through 12 at every one it answered. Newport Coast Elementary enrolled 429 students in the 2024-25 federal count and Corona del Mar 2,106.
When was Pelican Hill built?
The first tract map, TR 14065, was recorded on September 19, 1991 at map book page MM 682/1-27, and the last of the 2, TR 14249, on October 29, 1992. Hunsaker and Associates engineered the first map. Newport Coast was unincorporated county land at the time and Newport Beach annexed it in 2002. A recorded map is the filing date for the subdivision rather than a construction date for any one home.