New Providence

New Providence covers 45.5 acres in the Marblehead Inland Specific Plan area and holds 225 addresses. Nine streets serve it and they carry a nautical vocabulary: Avenida Mastil and Camino Corso Rio each with 40 addresses, then Avenida Marejada, Calle Balandra, Camino Bucanero, Via Chalupa, Calle Almirante, Camino Ancla and Camino Galeon. It is the 29th largest of the fifty San Clemente communities mapped here by area and the 17th by address count.

Residential Medium Low Density land accounts for 37.2 acres inside the boundary and public right of way for 5.7, a denser designation than the Low Density that covers most of Marblehead Inland. The state fire hazard severity map places 30.5 acres in its High class and 15 in Moderate. Capistrano Unified's own school locator returned San Clemente High, Shorecliffs Middle and Clarence Lobo Elementary at all five interior points tested.

New Providence went up between 1984 and 1987, two hundred and twenty five homes built as the fourth planning area of Marblehead Inland. The city had approved a development plan for the Marblehead Inland ranch back in 1979, and the Lusk Company revised it in 1984, the same year the New Providence plan of its own was approved. The homes were plotted as patio homes, which catches buyers out, because from the street they read as detached two story houses with their own back yards and two car garages.

Almost everything around here was named by somebody thinking about the sea. New Providence is the island in the Bahamas that Nassau sits on, and the neighbors inside the same plan are called Highland Light, Faire Harbour and Signal Pointe. The streets keep it going in Spanish. Avenida Mastil is the mast, Camino Ancla the anchor, Camino Galeon the galleon, Calle Balandra the sloop, Calle Almirante the admiral and Camino Bucanero the buccaneer, while Avenida Marejada is the swell.