Ranchwood II

Ranchwood II is drawn on the city's HOA Local register at 16.0 acres, with 133 addresses inside it. They sit on seven streets, Calle Ranchera, Calle Vaqueta, La Cincha and Las Alforjas among them. The published boundary follows lot lines and leaves the street rights of way outside it, so no centerline falls inside. The county parcel record inside the boundary is 137 parcels, predominantly detached single family houses. The median lot the county records here is 0.1 acres and 51 feet wide. The city general plan gives 15.2 of those acres a low-medium density residential designation. The zoning layer puts 15.1 acres in the RLM-4000-D zone and 0.8 in OS. Mail here carries the 92688 zip code and a Rancho Santa Margarita postal city.

4.5 acres are rated Very High on the 2025 state fire hazard severity map the city publishes. The city assigns the ground to evacuation zone RSM04, which it describes as El Camino Montana Corridor, Church Row, St. John's School, Trabuco Mesa Elementary School, Trabuco Mesa Park. Water comes from the Santa Margarita Water District and trash is collected Thursday by CR&R. All of it lies in Saddleback Valley Unified, which feeds Trabuco Mesa Elementary, Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate and Trabuco Hills High.

Ranchwood II names its streets after the gear a working rider carried. La Cincha is the cinch that holds a saddle on, Las Alforjas the saddlebags, Via Jaquima the hackamore, the bitless bridle whose Spanish name came into English as that very word, Calle Vaqueta the tanned cowhide it was all made from, and El Arreo the act of driving the herd. Los Pioneros and Calle Ranchera finish the set.

That vocabulary is not borrowed from somewhere else. This was the O'Neill family's working cattle ranch, and the homes date from 1986 and 1987, the first two years of construction anywhere in the city, and run to around 1,600 square feet. There are 133 of them on 16 acres.