Haven Hill

Haven Hill covers 30.8 acres reached from Imperial Highway, on four streets over eight tenths of a mile: Frontier, River Valley and Trapper, with Imperial along the edge. The city records 63 addresses on 54 parcels, every one detached single family, and the median lot runs 15,394 square feet, better than a third of an acre. Zoning is Hillside Single-Family Residential at a 10,000 square foot minimum, and the general plan designates the whole boundary Residential Low at up to 6.5 homes to the acre.

Thirty-six of the 54 parcels carry a pool on the assessor record, two in three. The city's footprint layer measures the houses at a median 3,025 square feet of ground floor and reads 33 as two-story against 15 single-story. The boundary lies wholly in ZIP 92807 and in flood zone X. Haven Hill sits in Orange Unified School District and feeds Canyon High.

Frontier, Trapper, Scout, Settler, Pathfinder, Prospector and Cowboy are the streets of two adjoining neighborhoods on this hillside, and the naming is a single scheme split across them. It is the cast of a western: the man who traps, the man who scouts ahead, the man who files a claim, the family that stays. Haven Hill holds Frontier and Trapper, with River Valley Road running down toward the Santa Ana and Imperial Highway along the top.

Anaheim Hills itself began on 30 October 1970, when Santa Anita Consolidated took deed to 4,200 acres of the Nohl Ranch to build a planned community, and a Texaco Ventures joint venture took over the residential land in August 1971. The first neighborhood, Westridge, opened in July 1972, and the city bought a separate 300 acres for a golf course that Richard Bigler laid out and that opened the same year. Haven Hill is small and late by comparison, sixty three houses built between 1980 and 1983 on lots averaging better than fifteen thousand square feet, which is well above the Anaheim Hills norm and part of why thirty six of them carry a pool. The bends in the streets are not decoration: Anaheim Hills was the first residential development anywhere to use landform grading, shaping the building pads to the natural line of the ridge instead of cutting them into flat steps.