Hunt Club II Estates

Hunt Club II Estates covers 26.09 acres and the city's address layer records just 30 addresses inside it, on two named streets, Golden Ridge Lane and Somerset Lane. Both are private: all 0.61 miles of street inside the boundary appear on the city's Private Roads layer. The zoning layer carries 26.0 acres as Single-Family-40,000, so the minimum lot is close to an acre, and the General Plan carries the whole boundary as Very Low Density. The boundary also takes in 0.6 miles of city trail with both the head and the terminus of the Belford-Marbella Trail inside it, and the city's 200 foot ridgeline buffer crosses 1.46 acres.

Four interior points were tested against the Capistrano Unified locator and all four returned the same three campuses. Harold Ambuehl Elementary takes TK through fifth grade with 324 students at a 23 to 1 ratio, 53 percent meeting the state standard in English language arts and 59 percent in mathematics, and it feeds Marco Forster Middle, which enrolls 930. San Juan Hills High School enrolls 2,641 and graduated 96.2 percent of its class. The Fire Hazard Severity Zone layer places 23.5 acres of the boundary in the High class and 2.6 acres in Very High.

Hunt Club II is the smaller, later half of the same idea: thirty houses on Golden Ridge and Somerset lanes, built from 1989, inside the same private equestrian neighborhood whose first homes were finished in 1980. The lots run to two thirds of an acre at the median, and the city's adopted plan for the Hunt Club, Specific Plan 77-01, draws 20 foot and 7 to 10 foot equestrian easements through it.

That is the point of the neighborhood and of the town around it. San Juan Capistrano became a center of rancho culture after the mission was founded in 1776, full of vaqueros, cattle ranches and open grazing, and unlike the rest of Orange County it has kept equestrian zoning, public riding trails and open space as a matter of policy. The Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park is about a mile east, and the city's trail network runs from the neighborhood into the canyons behind it.