Avenida Adobe

Avenida Adobe covers 193.3 acres and holds 382 addresses on 368 parcels, at a median lot of 0.156 acres. The housing here is not like the rest of the city: the city's address layer flags 193 of the addresses as manufactured, and its own layers record 173 manufactured homes and 23 modular factory-built homes inside the boundary. Zoning runs 65.4 acres Planned Development, 40.1 acres Residential Suburban and 10.6 acres Commercial General, with 210 parcels in the city's planned development district 15. Twenty-one named streets carry 5.49 miles of centerline, fifty segments of it private.

Three parks sit inside the boundary and together they are the largest park holding in the eastern half of the city. Eastside Community Park covers 16.6 acres at 5400 Eastside Circle with a playground, restrooms, a baseball field, barbecues, sheltered picnic areas, parking and lighting. Jean Woodard Park adds 5.5 acres at 5450 Granby Drive, and Checkers Dog Park half an acre at 5411 Eastside Circle. Two private schools stand inside the boundary as well, St Francis of Assisi Elementary on 7.5 acres at 5330 Eastside Circle and a Kinder Care learning center on 1.5 acres. The street names run to American rivers and passes: Potomac, Roanoke, Truckee, Kern, Columbia, Portage, Mackenzie, Cimarron, Whitewater and Clearwater.

Avenida Adobe means adobe avenue, and the adobe it remembers is Bernardo Yorba's. In 1835 Yorba began building his hacienda on the grant he had just received. It was a two story adobe of about fifty rooms, large enough to hold his many children, schoolrooms and the ranch families, and it stood as the center of local life until he died in 1858. Everything on this side of Yorba Linda grew out of that holding.

The streets are rivers. Feather, Kern and Truckee are California rivers, Potomac and Roanoke run to the Atlantic, the Mackenzie is Canada's longest, and Columbia, Clearwater, Whitewater and Cimarron fill in the rest of the continent. Portage Street names the carry between two of them. Around that run a set of ordinary American street names at Granby, Greenbriar, Millstone, Westfield and Todd, and Avenida de la Paz, the avenue of peace, holds the Spanish end together.