Juliana Farms

Juliana Farms covers 33.66 acres and the city's address layer records thirteen addresses inside it, one for each numbered lot on the recorded map, all on a single street, Juliana Farms Road. At 0.22 miles that is the shortest street network of the fifty communities on the city's register, and all of it is on the city's Private Roads layer. Zoning splits three ways, 17.3 acres in the Residential and Agricultural District where horses are a permitted use, 8.4 acres of Single-Family-20,000 and 7.9 acres of Single-Family-40,000, and the General Plan carries the whole 33.6 acres as Very Low Density. The city's 200 foot ridgeline buffer crosses 8.47 acres.

Half a mile of city trail runs inside the boundary with three trailheads on it, the head of the La Mancha Trail, the head of the West Whispering Hills Trail and the terminus of the Juliana Farms Trail. Four interior points were tested against the Capistrano Unified locator and all four returned the same three campuses: Harold Ambuehl Elementary for TK through fifth grade with 324 students, Marco Forster Middle at 930, and San Juan Hills High School at 2,641, which graduated 96.2 percent of its class. The Fire Hazard Severity Zone layer places 31.0 acres of the boundary in the High class and 2.6 acres in Moderate.

Juliana Farms is thirteen houses on lots near an acre, built in 2000 and 2001 on a shelf of the eastern hills, with trails running off the end of the road toward La Mancha and Whispering Hills. The word farms in the name is doing honest work, because this ground was worked for a century before it was anything else.

The valley turned to agriculture after the ranchos declined in the 1860s under drought, smallpox and a state property tax, and by the 1880s barley, walnuts and oranges had been planted within the town limits. Much of the farming that followed was Basque: Jean Lacouague, himself a local Basque farmer, wrote in 1974 that the Oyharzabals had been the biggest single employers in San Juan at one time.