Overview
About The Boardwalk
The Boardwalk covers 44.0 acres measured against the city's published boundary and sits entirely inside the Palm/Goldenwest Specific Plan area. The address layer records 221 addresses inside the line and types 188 as residential, all classed single-family by the assessor, with one address carrying a unit designator. Nine named streets serve the community across 1.64 miles, and they hold to a shoreline vocabulary: Silent Harbor, Beachview, Feather, Sand Dune, Blue Heron, Azure, Cattail, Scallop and Silent Bay.
The homes here are among the largest in the city's register. The assessor's median building is 3,804 square feet with a tenth to ninetieth percentile band of 2,788 to 4,417, on a median lot of 6,785 square feet, and 103 of the 189 dwellings carry a pool. City zoning reads the whole boundary as specific plan designation, while the general plan splits it 56.3 percent residential low density and 19.6 percent residential medium density. All of it falls inside the Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction, in appeal zone 3, and Bluff Top Park, Bailey Park and Pattinson Park all lie within 250 meters.
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How The Boardwalk was built
The Boardwalk is a newer neighborhood on old ground. Of its 188 homes, 186 were finished in 2001 and 2002, across about 44 acres. The streets are all about the coast a few blocks away, Silent Harbor Drive, Beachview Drive, Sand Dune Lane, Blue Heron Drive and Azure Lane.
The coast they point at is the reason the city exists. Henry Huntington and his partners bought the Pacific City tract in 1903 along the route of a planned rail line and renamed it after him, and the Pacific Electric trains arrived by way of Seal Beach in 1904. The first pier, a thousand feet of timber, went up the same year. In 1914 the dedication of the new concrete pier included a surf board riding demonstration by George Freeth, a former Waikiki resident, the first surfing recorded in Huntington Beach. Duke Kahanamoku helped popularize the sport here from 1925, the first surfboard shop opened under the pier in 1956, and the city eventually registered Surf City USA as a trademark.
By the Numbers
The Boardwalk by the numbers
Lifestyle
The The Boardwalk lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving The Boardwalk
The Boardwalk 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 of this boundary, returned Huntington Seacliff Elementary and Ethel Dwyer Middle at every one.
9-12 · 2,645 students
6-8 · 884 students
K-5 · 495 students
FAQs
Common questions about The Boardwalk
How big is The Boardwalk?
Measured against the boundary the City of Huntington Beach publishes, The Boardwalk covers 44.0 acres. The city address layer records 221 addresses inside it, 188 of them residential, on nine named streets running to 1.64 miles.
When was The Boardwalk built?
In 2001, almost entirely. The assessor record dates 187 of the 189 homes to the 2000s with a median year built of 2001, and the two remaining homes are dated 2016. The single recorded tract map over the ground, TR 15795, was recorded on 18 April 2001.
How large are the homes in The Boardwalk?
The assessor's median building here is 3,804 square feet, among the largest of any community on the city's association register. The band from the tenth to the ninetieth percentile runs from 2,788 to 4,417 square feet, on a median lot of 6,785 square feet.
What is the Palm/Goldenwest Specific Plan?
It is the city planning document that governs the whole of this boundary. The City Council adopted it on 7 February 2000 by Resolution No. 2000-14 and the California Coastal Commission certified it on 9 August 2000. It covers a 150-acre site between Palm Avenue, Pacific Coast Highway, Goldenwest Street and Seapoint Street, and permits up to 315 dwelling units on the 54 acres then owned by PLC.
Is The Boardwalk in the Coastal Zone?
Yes, entirely. The city's Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction layer covers 100 percent of the boundary, in appeal zone 3. Bluff Top Park, Bailey Park and Pattinson Park all lie within 250 meters of the line.