Tierra Montanosa

Tierra Montanosa is drawn on the city's HOA Local register at 16.7 acres, with 207 addresses inside it. They sit on four streets, Tierra Montanosa, Tierra Plano, Tierra Seguro and Rancho Trabuco, carrying 0.96 miles of centerline. The county parcel record inside the boundary is 231 parcels, predominantly condominium units. The city general plan gives 10.0 of those acres a medium density residential designation. The zoning layer puts 10.0 acres in the RM-2000-A zone and 3.1 in OS. Mail here carries the 92688 zip code and a Rancho Santa Margarita postal city.

15.1 acres are rated Very High on the 2025 state fire hazard severity map the city publishes. The city assigns the ground to evacuation zone RSM06, which it describes as SFR, HOA Pool, Apt Complex, Church. Water comes from the Santa Margarita Water District and trash is collected Wednesday by CR&R. All of it lies in Saddleback Valley Unified, which feeds Melinda Heights Elementary, Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate and Trabuco Hills High.

Four streets serve 207 homes here and three of them are the same word twice. Tierra Montanosa is the mountainous land, Tierra Plano the flat land and Tierra Seguro the safe land, three descriptions of ground stacked one on the next. The fourth, Rancho Trabuco, names the land grant the whole neighborhood stands on.

The homes were built in 1994 in a Spanish idiom on the north side of the city, on about seventeen acres with almost a fifth of it open space. Children go to Melinda Heights Elementary, Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate and Trabuco Hills High, and residents share the master association's lake, Beach Club and parks.