Parkridge Hills

Parkridge Hills covers 164 acres east of Cannon between Via Escola and Serrano, with 273 addresses on 3.43 miles of public street. Almost all of the buildable ground, 142 acres, is zoned Planned Community rather than to a standard lot size, and the median parcel measures 0.312 acres, among the largest in the city. The general plan splits the boundary between 111 acres of low density housing and 45 acres of estate housing at one to two dwellings per acre.

The city's own Fire Station 8 sits inside the boundary at 5725 East Carver Lane, on a site set aside in the subdivision itself, and 1.16 miles of the City of Orange recreation trail network runs through it, with equestrian and hiking trail easements recorded across the tract. None of the addresses carries a unit designator, so the housing is detached throughout. The boundary straddles council districts 4 and 6. The city's parcel record assigns 317 parcels to Nohl Canyon Elementary, then every parcel to Cerro Villa Middle and Villa Park High.

This slope was first put up for houses in 1989, when Tracy Building Corp of Rancho Santa Margarita brought the city council a 350 home plan for 195 acres north of Serrano Avenue and the council put the decision off rather than take it. What was eventually built runs along the Loma Street extension, and the houses date from the second half of the 1990s.

The streets are flowers and woods. Azalea, Goldenrod, Lavender, Wildrose and Wisteria run alongside Abbeywood, Blairwood, Cedarbrooks, Hollyoak, Timbergrove, Hightree and Springwinds, the standard vocabulary of a hillside tract that wants to sound like the countryside it replaced.