Overview
About Fairmeadow Tract
Fairmeadow is 119 homes on 33 acres, laid out along nine streets and 1.20 miles of public street, and it is the one Orange Eichler tract set in the middle of the city rather than against the eastern hills. Every lot is zoned for single family homes on 8,000 square feet, the median parcel measures 0.196 acres, and the parcel count and the home count are the same 119, so nothing here was ever split.
The city records the tract as five models and three one off designs, the majority of them drawn by Anshen and Allen, and its parcel survey names the LJ-144 on 30 lots, the LA-24R on 16 and the LA-114 on 16. These are post and beam houses with floor to ceiling glass along the back elevation, interior atriums on many plans, and a street face kept private. Orange designated Fairmeadow a local historic district in 2019 with design standards attached. A tenth of a mile of the city bike trail network runs inside the boundary, and every parcel here is assigned to Taft Elementary, Cerro Villa Middle and Villa Park High.
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How Fairmeadow Tract was built
Fairmeadow is the middle one of the three tracts Joseph Eichler built in Orange, finished in 1962 between Fairhaven of 1960 and Fairhills of 1964. Anshen and Allen did most of the drawing. The houses are the standard Eichler argument put into wood and glass: post-and-beam framing, walls of glass front and back, low-pitched or flat roofs, radiant heat in the concrete slab, and a central atrium that opens the middle of the house to the sky, with several plans framing that atrium behind an A-frame at the entry.
The streets here read as a set of English-sounding valleys, Briardale, Ferndale, Glendale, Palmdale, with Ridgewood and Woodside beside them, and Cambridge, Winlock and Shaffer running through. Orange later designated all three Eichler neighborhoods as local historic districts, which lets owners who maintain the houses to federal preservation standards enter Mills Act agreements, and in May 2019 the city's Eichler design standards were given awards of excellence by the American Planning Association and by Docomomo US.
By the Numbers
Fairmeadow Tract by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Fairmeadow Tract lifestyle
Clipped to this boundary, the city's trail layers return 0.12 miles of existing bike trail.
Schools
Schools serving Fairmeadow Tract
Orange publishes the assigned school on every parcel in the city, which means the campuses below are the ones the city itself sends this boundary to rather than the ones that happen to be nearest. The city's parcel record assigns every parcel here to Taft Elementary for elementary, every parcel here to Cerro Villa Middle for middle and every parcel here to Villa Park High for high. Enrollment is the 2024-25 federal count.
9-12 · 2,023 students
7-8 · 747 students
K-6 · 408 students
FAQs
Common questions about Fairmeadow Tract
When was Fairmeadow built?
The City of Orange dates the tract to 1962 and calls it the second of the three Eichler tracts in the city. The county recorded the subdivision as Tract 3978 in 1961, surveyed by C.J. Queyrel.
Who designed the homes in Fairmeadow?
The city records five models and three one off designs, the majority of them drawn by Anshen and Allen, one of the two firms Joseph Eichler worked with most. The city's parcel survey names the LJ-144 as the most common plan here, on 30 lots, followed by the LA-24R and the LA-114 on 16 each.
Is Fairmeadow a historic district?
Yes. The City of Orange designated all three of its Eichler tracts local historic districts in 2019 and adopted design standards with them, after a 2005 survey identified them as potential districts and a 2016 petition carried the support of more than 80 percent of Eichler residents.
Which schools serve Fairmeadow?
Orange publishes an assigned school on every parcel, and every one of the 119 parcels here is assigned to the same three campuses: Taft Elementary, which enrolled 408 students on the 2024-25 federal count, Cerro Villa Middle at 747 and Villa Park High at 2,023.
How big are the lots in Fairmeadow?
The median parcel measures 0.196 acres on the city's own parcel geometry, and all 24 zoned acres inside the boundary are Single Family Res. 8000 sq ft. The tract holds 119 parcels against 119 addresses, so the original lot pattern is intact.