Seascape Villas

Seascape Villas covers 47.9 acres and holds 301 addresses on 309 parcels, at a median parcel of 0.065 acres. All ten of its streets are named for birds: Paseo Flamenco carries 86 addresses, Paseo Halcon 81 and Paseo Gallita 60, with Via Pichon, Via Pavon, Paseo Ganso, Via Pato, Camino Alondra, Via Pajaro and Via Loro taking the rest. At 6.3 addresses to the acre it is the fourth densest of the fifty San Clemente communities mapped here.

Residential Medium Low Density land accounts for 46.3 of the 47.9 acres inside the boundary. The state fire hazard severity map reaches only 16.5 acres of it, 13.8 Moderate and 2.7 High, which is the lightest fire mapping of any of the fifty boundaries. Addresses inside the boundary carry the 92672 zip code. Capistrano Unified's own school locator returned San Clemente High, Shorecliffs Middle and Palisades Elementary at all five interior points tested.

Seascape Villas is the association behind the neighborhood most people in town say as Seascape Village, a planned unit development of 301 single level homes begun in 1976 and finished by 1978. There are four floor plans, two or three bedrooms with two baths and an attached two car garage, and the houses were built with private patios, an interior atrium and a laundry room of their own, which is about as mid 1970s as a floor plan gets. The association still runs three pools, a spa, a clubhouse and two tennis courts.

The street names are one continuous joke about birds. Camino Alondra is the lark, Paseo Halcon the falcon, Paseo Ganso the goose, Via Pato the duck, Via Pavon the peacock, Via Pichon the pigeon, Via Loro the parrot, and Via Pajaro just means bird. Whoever laid the tract out picked a theme and held it across every street in the place, which is a habit this city has had since Ole Hanson required Spanish names and Spanish roofs on everything he sold.