Las Flores I

Las Flores I is drawn on the city's HOA Local register at 6.3 acres, with 151 addresses inside it. They sit on three streets, Flor de Sol, Rosa and Flor de Mar, carrying 0.35 miles of centerline. The county parcel record inside the boundary is 152 parcels, predominantly condominium units. The city general plan gives 6.3 of those acres a high density residential designation. The zoning layer puts 6.2 acres in the RH zone. Mail here carries the 92688 zip code and a Rancho Santa Margarita postal city.

The city assigns the ground to evacuation zone RSM04, which it describes as El Camino Montana Corridor, Church Row, St. John's School, Trabuco Mesa Elementary School, Trabuco Mesa Park. All of it lies in Saddleback Valley Unified, which feeds Trabuco Mesa Elementary, Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate and Trabuco Hills High.

Las Flores means the flowers and the streets do exactly what the name promises: Rosa, Flor de Sol and Flor de Mar, the rose, the sunflower and the sea flower. It is 151 homes packed onto 6.3 acres, which is why three street names are enough to address all of it.

The village name is older than the village. Las Flores was a place on the rancho this city sits on long before any of it was built: Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores, a grant of 133,440 acres made by Governor Juan Alvarado in 1841 to Pio Pico and his brother Andres. Juan Forster bought into it, and after his death in 1882 the ranch passed to Richard O'Neill and James Flood. Construction on the master-planned community began in 1986 on that ranch land, and Rancho Santa Margarita incorporated on 1 January 2000 as Orange County's 33rd city.