Las Flores II

Las Flores II covers 8.8 acres on the city's own HOA Local register, and the city address layer records 188 addresses inside that line. They sit on six streets, Gavilan, Picazo, Gaviota and Pica Flor among them, carrying 0.4 miles of centerline. The county parcel record inside the boundary is 203 parcels, predominantly condominium units. The city general plan gives 6.4 of those acres a high density residential designation. The zoning layer puts 6.4 acres in the RH zone and 0.9 in OS. Mail here carries the 92688 zip code and a Rancho Santa Margarita postal city.

The city assigns the ground to evacuation zone RSM05, which it describes as City Center, City Hall, Retail, High Density Apt. Complexes, Elderly Care Facilities, High School, Middle School. All of it lies in Saddleback Valley Unified, which feeds Trabuco Mesa Elementary, Cielo Vista Elementary, Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate and Trabuco Hills High.

Las Flores II shares a name with its neighbor and almost nothing else about its street signs. Where Las Flores I is planted with flowers, the second phase is entirely birds, and in Spanish: Gavilan is a sparrowhawk, Gaviota a gull, Mirlo a blackbird, Pica Flor a hummingbird and Andarrios a sandpiper. Six streets, six birds, laid over 8.8 acres holding 188 homes.

The ground was Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores, a grant of 133,440 acres made by Governor Juan Alvarado in 1841 to Pio Pico and his brother Andres. Juan Forster acquired it, and after he died in 1882 it passed to Richard O'Neill and James Flood. Construction on the modern community began in 1986 and the city incorporated on 1 January 2000 as Orange County's 33rd.