Overview
About Pointe del Mar
Pointe del Mar covers 4.9 acres and holds 43 addresses on 48 parcels, all of them reached from one street, Pointe Del Mar Avenue. The city zones the whole boundary Planned Community under the text it writes as Point Del Mar, and the general plan gives all 4.9 acres to detached single unit housing, which is unusual for a planned community of this size in the district.
All 0.2 miles of street inside the footprint are recorded as private, although the register records the association as not gated. The 7.86 acre Grant Howald Park sits 60 feet from the boundary and the 0.62 acre Old School Park 335 feet away. None of the ground is inside the Coastal Zone, none is designated for short term lodging, and the whole boundary is in FEMA flood zone X. 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 Pointe del Mar was built
The grid below this address was laid out after George E. Hart bought about 700 acres of Irvine Ranch oceanfront in 1904 and named it crown of the sea. F. D. Cornell, who took over the unsold ground in 1916, named the streets running down to the water after flowers in alphabetical order and left the cross streets numbered, which is why Corona del Mar still has a First through Fifth Avenue and no Sixth. Fifth Avenue is the inland edge of that original village, and for most of the twentieth century what lay above and behind it was open ground.
Pointe del Mar was one of the last pieces of it to be built. The site was subdivided in 1986 and the houses followed at once: the county carries a construction year for all 43 homes inside the boundary and every one of them reads 1987. The whole community is reached from one private avenue that carries its name, and it sits directly against Grant Howald Park and the Community Youth Center, with the small park the city calls Old School Park a short walk away.
By the Numbers
Pointe del Mar by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Pointe del Mar lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Pointe del Mar
The Newport-Mesa Unified locator was queried at 10 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 Pointe del Mar
When was Pointe del Mar built?
In 1987. Tract 12209 was recorded on November 7, 1986 and all 43 county dated parcels inside the boundary read 1987.
Are the homes detached?
The city general plan gives all 4.9 acres the Single-Unit Residential Detached designation, and the city records 43 residential units against 43 addresses. The register draws the association as two lot polygons covering 4.9 acres. Closing the street rights of way between them gives a footprint of 6.0 acres, which is the shape drawn on the district map.
Is it gated?
The city register records it as not gated, although all 0.2 miles of street inside the footprint appear on the private streets layer.
What parks are nearby?
Grant Howald Park at 7.86 acres sits 60 feet from the boundary and Old School Park at 0.62 acres 335 feet away.
Which schools serve it?
Harbor View Elementary, then Corona del Mar Middle and Corona del Mar High, at all 10 addresses tested inside the boundary. The city bikeway layer runs 0.05 miles inside the footprint, on Avocado Ave, Macarthur Blvd.