Luxury Remodeling in Orange

Orange holds two distinct building environments inside one city line. The central and western city sits on a flat alluvial plain, where Old Towne, gathered around its Plaza, contains the largest National Register historic district in California and exterior changes follow the city's preservation design standards. Three Eichler tracts built between 1960 and 1964, Fairhaven, Fairmeadow and Fairhills, are local historic districts too, their rear walls opening to the yard in floor-to-ceiling glass. East of the plain the land rises into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains around Santiago Hills and Orange Park Acres, and the General Plan names the developed fringe of those hillsides as the place where wildland fire is most problematic. In a historic district an addition or ADU starts with a historic resource assessment; in the foothills, a new home or ADU in a Fire Hazard Severity Zone falls under the city's Wildland-Urban Interface Code.

Single-family zoning runs from 6,000-square-foot minimum lots in R1-6 up to one acre in R1-40 and two and a half acres in the rural R1-R district, whose stated purpose is to minimize changes to riparian habitat, oak woodlands and prominent landforms; the 5,000-square-foot R1-5 district is intended for limited use in large-scale developments that keep at least 40 percent of their planning area as open space. Old Towne's residential quadrants sit on the flat plain around the Plaza. Serrano Heights and Santiago Hills II are governed by their own specific plans, and Orange Park Acres, in east Orange, by a neighborhood plan, where the General Plan's Estate Low Density designation provides for estate homes on large lots and can allow private equestrian use.

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