Hidden Canyon Estates

Hidden Canyon Estates covers 75 acres on the canyon rim above Avenida de Santiago, reached by Hidden Canyon, Overlook, Tamarisk and Tuckaway, half a mile of street in total. The city records 61 addresses on 48 parcels, all detached single family, and the median lot area is 53,592 square feet, better than an acre and a fifth. The general plan designates the whole boundary Residential Estate at up to 1.5 homes to the acre.

Zoning is split between two hillside districts, 37.2 acres at a 43,560 square foot minimum lot, which is a full acre, and 35.8 acres at 22,000, and this is the only community in this section with any of the one-acre district inside it. Twenty-eight of the 48 parcels carry a pool. The city's footprint layer measures the houses at a median 5,350 square feet of ground floor, the largest of any community here apart from Peralta Hills East. The boundary lies wholly in ZIP 92807 and in flood zone X, and it sits in Orange Unified School District.

Hidden Canyon Estates is what the far end of the Anaheim Hills plan looks like when the lots stop shrinking. Sixty one houses spread over seventy five acres, the typical property better than an acre and a quarter, twenty eight of them with a pool. Avenida de Santiago runs through it and takes the name of the creek and the peak behind, and Tamarisk, Overlook and Tuckaway name the rest.

The houses here date from 1986 to 1994, with 1988 the median year, so this was built at the tail of the Anaheim Hills build out rather than the head of it. By then the city had annexed the Bauer, Oak Hills and Wallace ranches at the eastern edge, adding thirteen hundred acres, and nearly a thousand acres across the community had been handed to public agencies so the slopes would stay as they were. Anaheim Hills had been the first residential development anywhere to use landform grading, and by the late 1980s that approach was routine here, which is why a boundary this large holds so few houses.