Overview
About Amber Lane
Amber Lane occupies 39.6 acres of the Camino Grande shelf in east Anaheim, reached from Camino Grande by way of Amber, Jacaranda and Tourmaline. The city records 66 addresses and 63 parcels inside the boundary, every one of them a detached single family lot, and the median lot runs 2,905 square feet. The general plan gives 32.9 of the 39.6 acres the Open Space designation and only 6.4 acres a residential one, so the houses stand close together on a small share of the ground and the slope around them stays undeveloped.
Anaheim's zoning layer covers 37.5 acres of the boundary with its Multiple-Family Residential district at a floor of 3,000 square feet of lot area per unit, the classification the city uses for small-lot detached housing of this kind. Five of the 63 parcels carry a pool on the assessor record. The whole boundary falls in ZIP 92807 and in flood zone X, the minimal hazard class. Amber Lane sits in Orange Unified School District, feeding Canyon High along with the district's Anaheim Hills elementary campuses.
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How Amber Lane was built
The Amber Lane association was created in 1987, at the western end of Anaheim Hills, and it is townhouse ground rather than ranch lots. Two of its streets, Amber and Tourmaline, take their names from gemstones, and Jacaranda from the tree. Of the roughly forty acres inside the boundary only about six carry houses, and the rest is hillside held as open space, which is how most of Anaheim Hills was laid out. Anaheim Hills was the first residential development anywhere to use landform grading, a method that rounds a cut slope so it reads as natural hillside instead of stepped terraces, and it is the reason the ridges above these roofs still look like ridges.
Camino Grande, the road that carries most of these addresses, runs east until it reaches the edge of the Oak Canyon Nature Center, so the wall of oaks at the end of the street is not landscaping but the canyon itself. Anaheim only crossed the Santa Ana River into these hills in 1960, in a land swap with the City of Orange made so it could build a reservoir on ground bought from the cattle rancher Louis Nohl. Everything here, the water, the roads and the houses, followed that decision.
By the Numbers
Amber Lane by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Amber Lane lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Amber Lane
Amber Lane lies within Orange Unified School District. Its campuses in Anaheim are listed below, each with its grade span and its enrollment on the 2024-25 federal count.
9-12 · 2,183 students
7-8 · 1,144 students
K-6 · 805 students
K-8 · 643 students
K-6 · 524 students
K-6 · 509 students
K-6 · 476 students
K-6 · 389 students
K-12 · 109 students
FAQs
Common questions about Amber Lane
How big is Amber Lane?
Amber Lane covers 39.6 acres on the boundary the City of Anaheim publishes. Inside it the city records 66 addresses across 63 parcels, all of them detached single family lots.
When was Amber Lane built?
The two tract maps that laid out the streets were recorded in 1986 and 1987. Tract 10972 came first, prepared by David A. Boyle Engineering, and Tract 10974 followed a year later from VTN Consultants.
What kind of homes are in Amber Lane?
Detached houses on compact lots. All 63 parcels inside the boundary are single family, and the median lot area on the county assessor's record is 2,905 square feet under a zoning district that sets a floor of 3,000 square feet of lot area per unit.
Which schools serve Amber Lane?
Amber Lane sits in Orange Unified School District. The schools page for this community lists each of the district's Anaheim campuses with its grade span and its enrollment on the 2024-25 federal count.
How much of Amber Lane is open space?
Of the 39.6 acres inside the boundary, the city's general plan designates 32.9 as Open Space and 6.4 as residential. The houses stand on a small share of the ground and the slope around them is left undeveloped.