Overview
About Saddleback View
Saddleback View covers 150.3 acres and the county records 366 parcels and 344 site addresses inside the boundary, at a median distinct legal lot of 6,248 square feet. Sixteen named streets run 5.04 miles within it, First through Sixth Streets crossing Eastside Ave, Fruit St, Linwood Ave, Lyon St, McClay St, Palm St, Patricia Ln, Trinidad Way and Zoo Ln.
The zoning layer spreads the ground widely: 26.9 acres of single family residence, 19.1 acres in Specific Development No. 21, 17.9 acres of general commercial, 15.7 acres of professional and 13.8 acres of two family residence. Saddleback View Park sits inside the boundary as a neighborhood site of 0.9 acres with a picnic area, a shade shelter and a playground. Four properties here sit on the city historic register, two of them landmarks. REACH Academy sits inside the boundary and Santa Ana Unified covers 99.3 percent of it.
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How Saddleback View was built
Zoo Lane runs off the edge of the neighborhood because the Santa Ana Zoo is next door, and the zoo exists because of one stubborn man. J. E. Prentice bought the property in 1931 after a foreclosure, and in 1949 he gave the City of Santa Ana sixteen acres beside his house for a park, on two conditions. It had to be called Prentice Park, and it had to include a zoo holding no fewer than fifty monkeys. Prentice kept four or five monkeys loose in his own house and had trouble keeping housekeepers because of it. The council handed him a gold key on May 19, 1949, and then had to put up with him shouting and waving his arms at the workmen while the park was built. The zoo opened in 1952 at 1801 E. Chestnut Avenue. Prentice died on June 3, 1959, and the monkey clause outlived him. In 2008 his great nephew Joseph Powell II counted the monkeys, found fewer than fifty, and had his lawyer ask the city to return the land to the family.
This is old ground by Santa Ana standards. The numbered streets and the lots along Lyon, McClay, Fruit and Palm were laid out from the 1890s onward and filled in through the 1920s, well before the freeway era, which is why the blocks are tight and the lots are small compared with the tracts further south and west.
By the Numbers
Saddleback View by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Saddleback View lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Saddleback View
Santa Ana Unified covers 99.3 percent of the boundary and assigns campuses through its own address locator rather than a published boundary map. REACH Academy sits inside the boundary itself. Enrollment below is the 2024-25 federal count.
06-12 · 36 students
06-08 · 936 students
KG-08 · 697 students
KG-05 · 675 students
KG-05 · 428 students
KG-05 · 557 students
KG-06 · 413 students
KG-05 · 380 students
09-12 · 1,519 students
FAQs
Common questions about Saddleback View
How big is Saddleback View?
The City of Santa Ana draws it at 150.3 acres, with 366 parcels and 344 site addresses on the county record. Sixteen named streets run 5.04 miles inside the boundary.
What is the East Side Addition?
The 1890 map that covers over half the boundary. H. C. Kellogg laid sixteen numbered blocks of six hundred and ten feet a side, with Depot Street at sixty feet wide along the north and Fourth Street at eighty feet along the south. It went on record on 22 November 1890.
How old is the housing?
The county carries a year built on 310 parcels here. The middle of them is 1950, with 120 dated to the 1950s and 72 to the 1920s. The oldest standing parcel is dated 1892.
Who was S. H. Finley?
The Orange County Surveyor who drew a great many Santa Ana maps. Inside this boundary he surveyed J. W. King's Subdivision of July 1900 and put his own name on the S. H. Finley Home Tract, recorded in March 1907.
What is inside the boundary for recreation?
Saddleback View Park, which the city records as a neighborhood site of 0.9 acres with a picnic area, a shade shelter and a playground.