Overview
About Coral Cay
Coral Cay covers 43.7 acres measured against the city's published boundary and holds only 124 residential addresses, reached by three named streets: Coral Cay Lane, Marinabay Drive and Courtside Circle. Those three run to 1.02 miles inside the line, which works out to more than a third of an acre of community for every hundred feet of street. No address carries a unit designator and the assessor classes all 124 dwellings as single-family residential.
City zoning reads 52.3 percent residential low density and 31.0 percent open space, the open space being the harbor water inside the boundary. The homes are large: a median building of 3,674 square feet with a tenth to ninetieth percentile band of 2,984 to 5,673, on a median lot of 7,110 square feet, and 92 of the 124 dwellings carry a pool. One hundred and eight of the dated structures are two story against fifteen that are single. The whole boundary sits inside the Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction in appeal zone 1, and Linear Park, Tarbox Park and 11th Street Beach all lie within 250 meters.
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How Coral Cay was built
Coral Cay lies on the southern edge of Huntington Harbour, where the made land meets the wetland it was carved from. The Bolsa Chica marsh and the mesa above it carry a human record dated back as much as 8,500 years. Rancho La Bolsa Chica was separated out of Rancho Las Bolsas in 1841, and in 1899 the Bolsa Chica Gun Club dammed the marsh off from the ocean, which is how it stayed until a 147 million dollar restoration reopened an inlet to the Pacific in 2006, the first tidal connection since the damming.
The harbor itself was planned from 1960 by Lewis W. Douglas Jr. of Christiana Oil Corporation, who bought into 860 acres of swamps and sloughs and hired the architect William L. Pereira to lay out a residential marina. Dredging started in 1963. Coral Cay came in the second half of that program. Of its 124 homes, 88 date to the 1970s starting in 1978, on about 44 acres, and the street plan is short and simple, Coral Cay Lane, Marinabay Drive and Courtside Circle.
By the Numbers
Coral Cay by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Coral Cay lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Coral Cay
The high school district's own published attendance boundary places all of Coral Cay in the Huntington Beach High area. Census TIGERweb puts the whole boundary inside Huntington Beach City School District, and that district's school locator, queried at three interior points here, returned Agnes L. Smith Elementary and Ethel Dwyer Middle at every one.
9-12 · 2,645 students
6-8 · 884 students
K-5 · 591 students
FAQs
Common questions about Coral Cay
How many streets are in Coral Cay?
Three: Coral Cay Lane, Marinabay Drive and Courtside Circle. Together they run 1.02 miles inside a boundary of 43.7 acres and serve 124 residential addresses.
When was Coral Cay built?
From 1978. One recorded tract map covers the ground, TR 8040, surveyed by John T. Guthrie and recorded on 22 November 1974. The assessor dates 88 of the 124 homes to the 1970s with a median year built of 1978. Later dates on the record reflect rebuilding, since the recorded lot count has not changed.
How large are the homes in Coral Cay?
The assessor's median building is 3,674 square feet on a median lot of 7,110 square feet, with the tenth to ninetieth percentile band running from 2,984 to 5,673 square feet. Ninety-two of the 124 dwellings carry a pool.
Is Coral Cay on the water?
City zoning reads 31.0 percent of the boundary as open space, which here is harbor water, alongside 52.3 percent residential low density. The whole boundary sits inside the Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction in appeal zone 1.
Which schools serve Coral Cay?
Huntington Beach Union High School District's published attendance boundary places the whole community in the Huntington Beach High area. Huntington Beach City School District's own locator returns Agnes L. Smith Elementary and Ethel Dwyer Middle, agreeing at all three interior points tested in this run.