Overview
About La Cuesta by the Sea
La Cuesta by the Sea covers 14.3 acres measured against the city's published boundary and holds 114 residential addresses among the 117 the address layer records inside the line. Only one address carries a unit designator and the assessor classes all 114 dwellings as single-family residential. Six named streets serve them across 0.59 miles and every one belongs to the shoreline: Beachcomber Drive, Seacoast Circle, Coastview Lane, Sailmaker Circle, Shell Circle and Shellfish Lane.
The whole boundary sits inside the city's Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction, in appeal zone 4, and the boundary fills 99.5 percent of its own convex hull. City zoning and the general plan both read all of it as residential medium density. The assessor's median building is 1,685 square feet on a median lot of 2,073, with a narrow tenth to ninetieth percentile band of 1,525 to 1,708, and the story counts are unusual for this register: 59 two story, 36 three story and 10 single story. Ten addresses carry a pool. Manning Park lies within 250 meters.
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How La Cuesta by the Sea was built
La Cuesta By the Sea is 114 homes on about 14 acres, built in 1980 within walking distance of the sand in western Huntington Beach. The county record puts 113 of them in the 1980s with the first finished in 1979, which is the same story told a year apart. The streets are all beach vocabulary, Beachcomber Drive, Seacoast Circle, Coastview Lane, Sailmaker Circle, Shell Circle and Shellfish Lane.
The beach at the end of them is the whole reason the city is here. Henry Huntington and his partners bought the Pacific City tract in 1903 along a planned rail route and renamed it Huntington Beach, and Pacific Electric trains started arriving by way of Seal Beach in 1904. A thousand foot timber pier went up the same year. In June 1914 the dedication of the replacement concrete pier included a surf board riding demonstration by George Freeth, a former Waikiki resident, the first documented surfing in Orange County. Duke Kahanamoku helped popularize the sport here from 1925 and the first surfboard shop opened under the pier in 1956.
By the Numbers
La Cuesta by the Sea by the numbers
Lifestyle
The La Cuesta by the Sea lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving La Cuesta by the Sea
La Cuesta by the Sea sits inside Huntington Beach Union High School District, and the district's own published attendance boundary places the whole community in the Huntington Beach High area. Census TIGERweb puts all of it inside Huntington Beach City School District. That district's school locator, queried at three interior points here, returned John R. Peterson Elementary and Ethel Dwyer Middle at every one.
9-12 · 2,645 students
6-8 · 884 students
K-5 · 477 students
FAQs
Common questions about La Cuesta by the Sea
When was La Cuesta by the Sea built?
Between 1979 and 1983. One recorded map covers the ground, TR 10248, surveyed by Valley Consultants Inc and recorded on 10 April 1979. The assessor dates 113 of the 114 homes to the 1980s with a median year built of 1980.
How big is La Cuesta by the Sea?
Measured against the boundary the City of Huntington Beach publishes, it covers 14.3 acres. The city address layer records 117 addresses inside it, 114 of them residential, on six named streets running to 0.59 miles.
How many stories are the homes?
The assessor records 59 as two story, 36 as three story and 10 as single story. Thirty-six is the highest count of three-story homes of any community on the city's association register.
Is La Cuesta by the Sea in the Coastal Zone?
Yes, entirely. The city's Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction layer covers 100 percent of the boundary, in appeal zone 4.
Is it related to La Cuesta Racquet Club?
They are two separate filings on the city's association register about a mile apart, and both recorded maps were surveyed by Valley Consultants Inc: La Cuesta Racquet Club in 1975 and 1976, and La Cuesta by the Sea in 1979. Nothing in the published record ties them beyond the surveyor and the name.