Luxury Remodeling in Cypress

Cypress began as a small dairy community that grew up around Pacific Electric's Santa Ana rail line, and after incorporating in 1956 it filled with single-family subdivisions, most of them built during the 1960s as farmland gave way to large tracts. The result is flat, orderly ground with a few distinct pockets: the rural-scale lots around Gay and Denni Streets, developed under county standards before annexation in 1988, and the 671-home Sorrento tract, built out in the 1990s. With no slope to work around, the zoning code shapes the backyard, from pool setbacks off side and rear lot lines to a 15-foot height limit on detached accessory structures and caps on how much of the required rear yard they may cover. Below grade, the city's Safety Element maps liquefaction potential in granular sandy soil with a high water content, so the soils report deserves early attention.

Flat, regular tract lots dominate, on terrain the Safety Element describes as lacking any significant topographical features. The RS-6000 zone calls for 6,000 square feet with a 60-foot width and 100-foot depth, a 10-foot rear setback with at least 1,100 square feet of rear yard and 40 percent maximum lot coverage, and a second story may not exceed 75 percent of the first floor, garage included. Larger parcels sit in the RS-15000 zone (15,000 square feet minimum) and the Density Incentive overlay (13,000 square feet minimum), while the rural-scale area around Gay and Denni Streets was developed to county standards before its 1988 annexation, so lot sizes and street improvements there vary.

One team designs, permits and builds every project, and our own crews self-perform the work, so the people who plan your Cypress project are the people on site building it.