Overview
About Jasmine Creek
Jasmine Creek is its own planned community in the city zoning code, covering 75.5 acres with 330 addresses on 342 parcels. It is gated, and the whole of its 2.99 miles of street is recorded as private on the city private streets layer, the largest privately held street network of the twenty-four boundaries in this district. Streets take their names from the water: Jasmine Creek Drive, Whitewater Drive, Mainsail Drive, Beachcomber Drive, Skysail Drive, Shoal Drive, Jetty Drive and Sandbar Drive.
Only 46.6 of the 75.5 acres carry housing. The city general plan gives 21.2 acres inside the boundary the Open Space designation and a further 5 acres Parks and Recreation, so more than a third of the ground is held open. The 4.06 acre San Joaquin Hills Park and Lawn Bowling Center adjoins the boundary and Jasmine Creek Park sits 60 feet away. Harbor View Elementary serves the community and enrolled 344 students on the 2024-25 federal count. For the city's own administration the city places it in evacuation zone 47, park service area 11, census tract 626.42.
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How Jasmine Creek was built
Jasmine Creek is the rare neighborhood whose shape was argued into existence in public. On 8 January 1972 the city approved a tentative map to divide 84.7 acres of hillside above Corona del Mar into 379 lots. The one objection came from Harbor View Hills South, across Marguerite Avenue, whose residents said the new houses would close off their seaward views across the site to the bay. Rather than dismiss the complaint the city wrote it into the conditions of approval, fixing a pad elevation and a maximum ridge height for every single lot, and the environmental report certified for the project carried those ridge limits as a mitigation measure.
The plan then shrank twice. On 7 May 1973 the council cut the community from 379 units to 346, and on 8 March 1976 it cut it again to 324 while reworking the private street system. Building was phased across five stages between 1973 and 1977. The builder was M. J. Brock and the architect was Walter J. Richardson, and the county record shows how quickly it went up once the arguments were settled: of the homes carrying a construction year here, 317 of 324 fall in the 1970s and 86 read 1976.
By the Numbers
Jasmine Creek by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Jasmine Creek lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Jasmine Creek
The Newport-Mesa Unified locator was queried at 48 real addresses inside this boundary and returned Harbor View Elementary at every one of them. That campus teaches kindergarten through sixth grade at 900 Goldenrod Avenue and enrolled 344 students on the 2024-25 federal count. The secondary grades are taught at 2101 Eastbluff Drive, which the district names as both Corona del Mar Middle School and Corona del Mar High School and which the federal directory records as one campus of 2,106 students across grades 7 to 12.
7-12 · 2,106 students
K-6 · 344 students
FAQs
Common questions about Jasmine Creek
Is Jasmine Creek gated?
Yes. The city register records the association as gated, and all 2.99 miles of street inside the footprint appear on the city private streets layer.
How much of Jasmine Creek is open space?
The city general plan designates 21.2 acres Open Space and 5 acres Parks and Recreation inside the 75.5 acre boundary, against 46.6 acres of attached housing. The register draws the association as eleven lot polygons covering 75.5 acres. Closing the street rights of way between them gives a footprint of 87.4 acres, which is the shape drawn on the district map.
Which schools serve it?
Harbor View Elementary, then Corona del Mar Middle and Corona del Mar High. The district locator gave that answer at all 48 addresses tested inside the boundary.
Is it inside the Coastal Zone?
No. None of the 75.5 acres sits inside the Coastal Zone, and none is designated for short term lodging.
When was it built?
Between 1974 and the early 1980s. The five recorded maps run from February 1974 to October 1977 and 317 of the 324 county dated parcels inside the boundary were built in the 1970s. The city bikeway layer runs 0.38 miles inside the footprint, on Marguerite Ave, San Joaquin Hills Rd.