Rancho del Avion

Rancho del Avion covers 23.35 acres addressed off Alipaz Street, and the city's address layer records 172 addresses inside the boundary, 171 of which carry a unit designator. All 1.21 miles of road inside the boundary appear on the city's Private Roads layer. The zoning layer places 23.3 acres in the Mobile Home Park District and the General Plan carries the same ground as Medium High Density, and the county holds 273 parcels inside the boundary, the eighth most of the fifty communities on the city's register.

Four interior points were tested against the Capistrano Unified locator and all four returned the same three campuses. Kinoshita Elementary takes TK through fifth grade with 302 students at a 22 to 1 ratio and feeds Marco Forster Middle, which enrolls 930, and San Juan Hills High School enrolls 2,641 and graduated 96.2 percent of its class. The federal flood layer the city publishes places 21.6 acres of the boundary in Zone AO, 1.7 acres in Zone X and a tenth of an acre in Zone AE, so almost the whole park sits in a mapped flood area, and the fire layer places all 23.3 acres in the Non-Wildland Fuel class.

Rancho del Avion is a mobile home park of 172 addresses on Alipaz Street, and it belongs to a housing type this city carries far more of than the wider region does. The adopted Housing Element counts 1,394 mobile home units among the city's 12,558 total units, about 11 percent of the stock against 3.5 percent across the six county Southern California region. The city runs rent control in its mobile home parks, limiting the annual space rent increase to the previous year's consumer price index, and puts that index at 3.2 percent for 2025. The park is run by an outside management company, Webb Consulting, rather than self managed.

Del Avion means of the airplane, and the road beside the park is named for a real one. The first Capistrano Airport was leveled in September 1931 on sixty acres near the mouth of San Juan Creek, just south-west of the corner of Alipaz Street and Camino del Avion. It was the idea of S. H. Woodruff, who was building Dana Point as a Mediterranean resort and wanted buyers to be able to fly down from Los Angeles to their coastal estates. It never got past a dirt strip of 1,300 to 1,800 feet, was closed by 1950, and was back in farm fields by 1952.