St Laurent

St Laurent covers 14.28 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 68 addresses inside that line across 5 streets. Lyon, St Laurent, Bellevue and Dorian carry the addresses between them, reached from Ridge Park Road. The median of the 78 parcels the city draws here runs 4,704 square feet. The city records 69 buildings inside the boundary carrying 66 dwelling units, and the city registry marks the association gated.

St Laurent is one of two associations in Newport Coast with no recorded tract map of its own inside the boundary, and the city splits its ground between two planned communities, 14.2 acres inside Newport Ridge and 0.1 inside Newport Coast. The city land use layer files most of the ground as Planning Area 11 - Residential High Density. Newport-Mesa Unified serves the whole boundary, 14.3 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.

The houses were built between 1995 and 1997, in the middle of the Newport Ridge program, after the 1988 agreement that preserved more than 6,000 acres of continuous open space and released 1,600 acres for development. The San Joaquin Hills toll road opened in November 1996, right in the middle of construction, with an exit at Newport Coast Drive.

Newport Ridge was named from France and this neighborhood keeps to it, but with a lighter touch than its neighbors. Lyon, which carries most of the addresses, is France's second city and the country's kitchen. Bellevue means beautiful view and is used all over France for exactly the kind of site this is. Dorian is a given name rather than a place, and Saint Laurent, the association's own name, is one of the commonest church dedications in France.