Plaza del Lago Condominiums

Plaza del Lago Condominiums holds 54 separately assessed homes on 3.05 acres fronting Newhope Street, all addressed on that one street. The assessor records a median building area of 702 square feet on a median lot of 2,203 square feet, the smallest of the fourteen communities here whose homes are separately assessed. The city's landscape survey maps one swimming pool inside the boundary.

The general plan designates the whole site Specific Plan, so density comes from the plan adopted for the site rather than a citywide range. FEMA places 95.1 percent of the ground in Zone X as an area with reduced flood risk due to levee and 4.9 percent in Zone A. Garden Grove Unified files this land in study area 141A of its own school locator, which feeds Mamie L. Northcutt Elementary, Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate and Los Amigos High.

Plaza del Lago is Spanish for the lake square. There are 54 homes on three acres of Newhope Street with one pool, built in 1981, which puts them among the smaller and later condominium groups in the city.

Newhope in 1981 was becoming the recreation side of Fountain Valley. The Los Caballeros sports club had opened here in 1977 as a private membership club on about twelve acres and grew into one of the largest racquet and fitness clubs in Orange County, and housing followed it up the street through the 1980s.