The Arbors

The Arbors covers 3.9 acres just south of downtown Brea and holds 68 addresses on four streets: South Poplar Avenue carries 41, then South Mandarin Drive, East Floral Court and East Plumeria Court. Thirty-eight of the addresses carry a unit designator and the parcel layer counts 37 parcels, all residential, on lots running to a median of 0.059 acres with structures to a median of 1,578 square feet and three bedrooms.

Horizon, a 2010 work by Blake Rankin, stands inside the boundary. The general plan carries 3.9 acres as High Density Residential and none of it falls in an elevated fire class. The Arbors is in Brea Olinda Unified, with Laurel Elementary 0.27 miles away holding 434 students, Brea Junior High 0.64 miles with 921, and Brea Olinda High 1.42 miles with 1,676.

The Arbors is sixty-eight homes on under four acres, built in 1996 at a typical size near 1,578 square feet on lots of about a seventeenth of an acre, roughly half of them addressed by unit number. It is a dense, late piece of a neighborhood otherwise built thirty years earlier, which is why the houses are taller and the lots are smaller than anything around them.

The street names keep the orchard in view. Mandarin Drive is a citrus variety on ground that grew citrus, Plumeria Court and Floral Court are flowers, and Green Ivy Drive completes an arbor theme that the community's own name announces. A sculpture called Horizon by Blake Rankin stands inside the boundary, commissioned under the rule the city adopted in 1975 that makes the developer of each project pay for a permanent outdoor work.