Luxury Remodeling in Seal Beach

Seal Beach grew out of Anaheim Landing, the first port in Orange County, before it was subdivided as the resort town of Bay City in 1903 and incorporated as Seal Beach in 1915. Much of that early scale survives: standard Old Town lots are 25 or 37.5 feet wide on a 15-foot alley, the Gold Coast lines Ocean Avenue between First and Eighth Streets, and about 250 homes sit on small lots behind the gate of Surfside Colony. Away from the beach, College Park East, College Park West and The Hill are held by the zoning code to 25 feet and two stories. On lots this compact, the code fixes where a pool and its equipment can go, and close to the water a record of storm flooding and liquefaction-prone ground makes the soil an early design question.

Lots are small and regular. In the RLD-9 district the minimum interior lot is 5,000 square feet at 50 by 100 feet, and lot coverage is capped at 45 percent plus 5 percent for patio covers that are at least half open, while the Gold Coast stretch of Ocean Avenue between First and Eighth Streets is allowed 60 percent. Standard interior lots in Old Town's RHD-20 district measure 25 or 37.5 feet wide by 100 or 117.5 feet deep and back onto a 15-foot alley. For pools, the code limits the water area to 20 percent of a residential lot and 60 percent of the required rear yard, keeps the pool 50 feet from the front lot line, 10 feet from a street side line and 4 feet from interior side and rear lines, and sets the filter and heater at least 10 feet from a neighboring dwelling, or 8 feet with approved sound attenuation.

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