Sunhollow

Sunhollow covers 24.77 acres and the city's address layer records 179 addresses inside it on eight named ways: Brookside Lane, Calle Arroyo, Moonglow Lane, Morningstar Lane, Starrise Lane, Summerfield Lane, Sundance Drive and Windsong Drive. Several of those lanes exist on the recorded maps as lettered lots dedicated to the city for public utility purposes rather than as roadways, which is why only 1.06 miles of street clip to the boundary and 0.67 miles of that sits on the city's Private Roads layer. Zoning is Multiple-Family District across 23.0 acres with 1.7 acres in the Community Park District, and the General Plan carries 20.3 acres as Medium High Density with 1.6 acres as Community Park.

The head of the La Novia Trail sits inside the boundary, and the city holds two small open space parcels along San Juan Creek within it. 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 federal flood layer places 2.0 acres of the boundary in Zone AE and the fire layer places 20.7 acres in the Non-Wildland Fuel class.

Sunhollow was first built in 1973, and its streets are a small weather report: Moonglow Lane, Morningstar Lane, Starrise Lane, Summerfield Lane, Brookside Lane. It is a compact neighborhood of homes between about 910 and 1,630 square feet, on the creek flats where Calle Arroyo runs.

Building houses on this ground required taming the creek. Its lower three and a half miles are channelized between levees, and even so it ran at 33,650 cubic feet per second on 11 January 2005, an all-time high, and came close to breaking through the western levee. San Juan Capistrano was twelve years old as a city when Sunhollow was started, and the general plan that would slow this kind of building down was still a year away.