Overview
About La Floresta
La Floresta covers 128.4 acres at the eastern edge of Brea and holds 990 addresses across 6.77 miles of street and forty-four named roads, almost all of them in Spanish: La Crescenta, Buena Vida, Maravilla, Calle Del Sol, Mallorca, Adelante, La Fiesta, Terrazo, Granada, La Mancha, Merida, Mirada, La Ventana, Estrella, Sevilla, Sonrisa, Orquidea and Soledad among them. La Crescenta Drive alone carries 221 addresses. The parcel layer counts 340 parcels of which 127 are residential and 329 of the addresses carry a unit designator, so the community mixes attached and detached housing on the same ground.
The general plan carries 118.8 acres as Mixed Use II, the largest block of that designation among the city's mapped communities, and the structures the parcel record measures run to a median of 2,712 square feet with four bedrooms on lots to a median of 0.13 acres. Oasis, a 2015 work by Doug Hollis and Anna Murch, stands inside the boundary. Seventy-four acres fall in the High fire hazard severity class and 44.8 outside the wildland classification. La Floresta is in Brea Olinda Unified, with Olinda Elementary 0.67 miles away holding 649 students and Brea Olinda High 2.16 miles with 1,676.
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How La Floresta was built
La Floresta means the woodland, and it is the newest large piece of Brea. The city council approved the plan in May 2010 for a mixed community of houses, courtyard homes, condominiums and a village core on a site of about 221 acres beside Imperial Highway. Standard Pacific opened its Camino neighborhood here in December 2014 with four plans between 1,940 and 2,436 square feet in Spanish, California bungalow and San Juan rustic styles, and Van Daele built alongside. Most of the homes the city records inside the boundary went up in 2013 and 2014.
The street names are a Spanish lesson. Places first: Aragon, Granada, Sevilla, Mallorca, Merida, Madeira, Gibraltar and Valencia. Then words worth translating, because they are chosen rather than borrowed. Buena Vida is the good life, Luna Nueva the new moon, Estrella a star, Sonrisa a smile, Soledad solitude, Maravilla a wonder, Mirada a look, Adelante forward, La Ventana the window, La Tienda the shop, La Campana the bell and La Entrada the entrance. La Mancha, which is Don Quixote's country, runs through the middle of it.
By the Numbers
La Floresta by the numbers
Lifestyle
The La Floresta lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving La Floresta
La Floresta sits inside Brea Olinda Unified. Olinda Elementary is 0.67 miles away, Brea Country Hills Elementary 1.46 miles and Brea Olinda High 2.16 miles, with Brea Junior High at 2.89 miles. Enrollment below is the 2024-25 federal count. Attendance boundaries set the assignment, so confirm a specific address with the district.
9-12 · 1,676 students
9-12 · 41 students
7-8 · 921 students
K-6 · 649 students
K-6 · 544 students
K-6 · 504 students
K-6 · 498 students
K-6 · 460 students
K-6 · 434 students
K-6 · 13 students
FAQs
Common questions about La Floresta
How big is La Floresta?
128.4 acres against the boundary the City of Brea publishes, with 990 addresses on 6.77 miles of street, the second highest address count of any of the city's 43 mapped communities after Country Hills.
When was La Floresta built?
The Brea City Council approved the project on June 15, 2010 by Ordinances 1140 and 1141 for La Floresta, LLC, a Chevron Land and Development company. Tract 17150 was recorded in 2011 by Hunsaker and Associates Irvine, with seven phase tracts through 2016, and the parcel record dates the housing from 2013 to 2020.
Who built La Floresta?
Chevron's La Floresta, LLC was the project proponent. Pulte Home Corporation built Planning Area 2 under an improvement agreement recorded in 2017, and The New Home Company and Taylor Morrison built elsewhere in the plan.
What kind of housing is it?
A mix. The parcel layer records 340 parcels of which 127 are residential, and 329 of the 990 addresses carry a unit designator. The structures the parcel record measures run to a median of 2,712 square feet with four bedrooms.
What was on the ground before?
The Map of the Olinda Tract, made by county surveyor S. H. Finley for the Olinda Crude Oil Company and recorded in April 1902, still covers a quarter of the boundary. The land later passed to Union Oil and then Chevron, and was carried inside the Birch Hills Specific Plan as industrial acreage until the city rezoned it.