Village Niguel Terrace II

Village Niguel Terrace II covers 12.5 acres and holds 245 addresses on 244 parcels. Ten named streets run 0.6 miles inside the boundary, and unusually for Laguna Niguel most of them are first names: Ryan, Nicole, Elaine, Colton, Jeanine, Donna, Kathleen and Young. The city's zoning layer gives the entire 12.5 acres to Multi Family District, and the polygon fills 94.6 percent of its own convex hull.

The city's HOA zoning lookup records the association as gated with private streets and flags it as condominiums. Its facilities entry names a pool, spa and tennis courts and marks them as the master association's, so they belong to Country Village rather than to this association alone. The ground is level at 238 feet throughout, the lowest of any gated boundary in the city, and drains to Aliso Creek. The 2025 fire hazard layer rates the whole 12.5 acres NonWildland and the flood layer places all of it in zone X.

Niguel Terrace was among the first neighborhoods the Laguna Niguel Corporation finished, complete by 1962 along with Monarch Bay, 565 homes between them, at a point when the whole development had fewer than a thousand residents. Village Niguel Terrace II is much later work: Shapell Industries recorded tract 12846 for condominium purposes on 13 July 1987, surveyed by Douglas O. Foster of Keith Engineering, while this was still unincorporated county land. The name comes from that beginning.

The corporation had been formed in 1959 by Cabot, Cabot & Forbes and Paine Webber, which bought the Daguerre share of the old Moulton ranch, went public that April raising 8.2 million dollars, and hired the Viennese architect Victor Gruen to draw a 7,100 acre town plan with close to a third of the developable land in parks and open space. Gruen had designed the first enclosed shopping mall in the United States, opened in Minnesota three years earlier. AVCO Community Developers bought the corporation in 1971.