Signal Pointe

Signal Pointe covers 55.1 acres in the Marblehead Inland Specific Plan area and holds 206 addresses on 232 parcels, at a median parcel of 0.13 acres. Eight of its nine streets are named for gemstones: Calle Opalo, Via Zafiro, Calle Aquamarina, Calle Jade, Calle Onice, Corte Esmeralda, Corte Amatista and Corte Topacio, with Via Mero the exception. It is the 22nd largest of the fifty San Clemente communities mapped here by area and the 21st by address count.

Residential Low Density land accounts for 29.7 acres inside the boundary, private open space for 15.4 and public right of way for 11.3. The state fire hazard severity map places 52.6 acres in its High class and 2.4 in Moderate. Capistrano Unified's own school locator returned San Clemente High, Shorecliffs Middle and Clarence Lobo Elementary at all five interior points tested.

Signal Pointe is a gated pocket of detached houses built between 1992 and 1996 on the inland side of Marblehead, with a pool and spa of its own. It is one of seven sub associations under the Marblehead Community Association, alongside Highland Light Estates, Highland Light Gate, the Summit at Highland Light, Highland Light Village, Faire Harbour and New Providence. The tract names look east to the Atlantic while the streets inside Signal Pointe are gemstones in Spanish: Calle Jade, Calle Opalo, Calle Onice and Calle Aquamarina, with the cul de sacs Corte Amatista, Corte Esmeralda and Corte Topacio.

All of Marblehead was once the Reeves Ranch, 1,150 acres in the hills above town. Brigham Young University bought it in 1968 and proposed thousands of dwellings on it, with three lakes and horse trails. By 1972 the hilly 750 acres east of the freeway, which is the ground Signal Pointe stands on, was grazing land that had earlier served as a motorcycle park, and part of the 300 acres on the ocean side was leased out as a tomato field. The Fujita Corporation bought the ranch in 1974, and the Lusk Company took it in the 1980s and began on the inland half.