Meredith Parkwood

Meredith Parkwood covers 163.4 acres and the county records 334 parcels and 327 site addresses inside the boundary, at a median distinct legal lot of 7,196 square feet. Twenty four named streets run only 3.95 miles within it, among them Peachwood Ln, Pearwood Ln, Millwood St, Mirasol St, Camino Ave, Catalina Ave and Old Tustin Ave. The zoning layer gives 43.8 acres to single family residence, 28.1 acres to arterial commercial and 24.1 acres to suburban apartment, and it still carries 10.9 acres as general agricultural.

Portola Park sits inside the boundary at 9.1 acres, and the city records a ball diamond, a basketball court, a tennis court, a picnic area, a playground and off street parking on it. Tustin Unified covers 99.8 percent of the boundary, which sets Meredith Parkwood apart from most of the city, and John Muir Fundamental Elementary, a Santa Ana Unified campus, sits inside the boundary on the city school layer.

Meredith Parkwood sits on the old ground between Santa Ana and Tustin, and the roads still say so. Columbus Tustin, a carriage maker from Northern California, founded the town to the east in 1868 on 1,300 acres bought out of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. Tustin Avenue and Old Tustin Avenue run down this neighborhood's eastern side, and Mabury Street comes up through the middle of it.

The houses arrived in one wave. Of the 303 homes here with a known build year, 271 date from the 1960s and the typical one from 1968. The street names run in sets, Millwood, Peachwood, Pearwood, Plumwood and Ridgewood on one hand, Avalon, Catalina and Mirasol on the other. Almost the whole neighborhood is served by Tustin Unified rather than Santa Ana Unified, a school boundary that cuts across the city line.