Overview
About Chatelain
Chatelain covers 70 acres and holds 120 addresses on 133 parcels, at a median lot of 0.138 acres. Only four streets run inside the boundary, 0.91 miles between them, and three of them are named for French painters: Rue De Gauguin, which carries more than half the total length, Rue De Cezanne and Rue De Monet, with La Vida Drive completing the set. The city's zoning layer gives 47.4 acres to open space against 17 acres to Single Family District 3, so two thirds of the boundary is not residential ground.
The ground runs from 256 feet to 463 feet and every parcel inside drains to Aliso Creek. The 2025 fire hazard layer rates 66 of the 70 acres NonWildland and the remaining 4 acres Moderate, though the city still records fuel modification on 24 parcels. Two thirds of a mile of the Salt Creek Trail runs inside the boundary, and the Open Space Inventory covers 48.7 acres of it, almost all recorded as landscaped or maintained vegetation.
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How Chatelain was built
Three of the four streets in Chatelain are named for French painters, Rue De Gauguin, Rue De Cezanne and Rue De Monet, with La Vida Drive completing the set. That is the whole street network of a community that covers 70 acres, because two thirds of the boundary is open space rather than housing and only 120 homes sit inside it.
The Laguna Niguel Corporation began building from 1959 on a plan by the Viennese architect Victor Gruen that reserved close to a third of the developable land as open space, and Chatelain is a late piece of that logic: the city's record runs its years built from 1987 to 1994 with a median of 1991, and 48 of the homes date to 1990. Two thirds of a mile of the Salt Creek Trail runs inside the boundary.
By the Numbers
Chatelain by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Chatelain lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Chatelain
Capistrano Unified serves Chatelain. The district's locator was probed at five addresses inside the boundary and returned Hidden Hills Elementary, Niguel Hills Middle and Dana Hills High at every one.
9-12 · 1,725 students
6-8 · 693 students
K-5 · 330 students
FAQs
Common questions about Chatelain
How big is Chatelain?
Measured against the boundary the City of Laguna Niguel publishes, Chatelain covers 70 acres. The city's address layer records 120 addresses inside it and the parcel layer 133 parcels, at a median lot of 0.138 acres.
Why are the streets in Chatelain named in French?
The recorded map laid them out that way. Rue De Gauguin, Rue De Cezanne and Rue De Monet are three of the four street names the city's address layer records inside this boundary, alongside La Vida Drive.
When was Chatelain built?
Its single tract map, Tract 13306, was recorded on 15 September 1989. The city's parcel layer dates 120 parcels here between 1987 and 1994, with 111 of them in the 1990s and 1990 the busiest year at 48.
How much of Chatelain is open space?
The city's zoning layer puts 47.4 of the 70 acres in open space, and the Open Space Inventory covers 48.7 acres inside the boundary across 37 parcels, almost all of it landscaped or maintained vegetation.
Is Chatelain gated?
No. The city's HOA zoning lookup records Chatelain Homeowner Association as not gated with public streets, and lists 120 units.