Newport Ridge Estates

Newport Ridge Estates covers 7.32 acres of Newport Coast in 2 separate parts on the boundary the City of Newport Beach publishes for it, and the city address layer records 38 addresses inside that line across 1 street. One street, Sea Terrace, carries every address in the association. The median of the 41 parcels the city draws here runs 7,449 square feet. The city records 43 buildings inside the boundary carrying 38 dwelling units, and the city registry marks the association gated.

Every address in the association sits on one street across two separate parts, and the median parcel the city draws here measures 7,449 square feet. The city land use layer files most of the ground as Planning Area 1-a - Residential Medium Density. Newport-Mesa Unified serves the whole boundary, 7.3 acres on the county district clip. The district locator, probed once per 300 foot grid cell inside the boundary, returns Newport Coast Elementary and Corona del Mar Middle and High School.

Building on the coast was settled by a compromise in 1988: more than 6,000 acres of continuous open space in exchange for 1,600 acres of private land. Construction began in 1990 and Newport Ridge Estates was finished early, between 1993 and 1997. The San Joaquin Hills toll road opened in November 1996 with an exit at Newport Coast Drive, which changed the commute for everyone who had just moved in and pulled the whole area much closer to Irvine and the airport.

The one street is Sea Terrace, and the plain English name is itself the giveaway. Most of Newport Ridge was named from France, with streets like Anjou, Versailles and Giverny a short drive away, but the Estates was named for what it is: a terrace of houses looking at the sea. It is one of a handful of places in Newport Coast where the developer dropped the theme and simply described the view.