Backyard & Outdoor Living in Anaheim Hills

City of Anaheim Planning and Building Department, Building Division. Anaheim Hills is part of the City of Anaheim, so residential permits are issued by the Planning and Building Department's Building Division, not by a separate city or by the county. Grading plans must comply with Anaheim Municipal Code Chapter 17.06, Grading, Excavations and Fills in Hillside Areas, and the city publishes a specific hillside grading plan procedure that requires security in the form of a surety bond, letter of credit or cash deposit, plus a landscape and irrigation bond for slopes over five feet with a minimum bond amount. Most of the area east of the 55 and 91 interchange falls under the Scenic Corridor (SC) Overlay Zone in Chapter 18.18 of the zoning code, which adds design and landscape standards. Portions of the canyon are mapped as Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone. We prepare the drawings, make the submittal and handle plan-check corrections ourselves, so you are not the one chasing the city.

Hillside pads carved into ridgelines, with flat frontage, a home near the street and a rear yard that drops away. Older Peralta Hills parcels are large, semi-rural and gently sloped; the newer ridge tracts are tighter with dramatic grade change. In practice that means ridge and canyon pads were created with substantial engineered fill, so verifying fill depth and compaction reports before setting a shell elevation is essential to avoid redesign mid-project..

All of it, including Anaheim Hills Estates, Peralta Hills, The Summit, Sycamore Canyon. We are based in Los Angeles at Cahuenga Pass, so Anaheim Hills is a short run for our crews rather than a job we service from out of the area.

Full backyard transformation in this market generally runs $50,000 to $250,000+. What moves it is how much hardscape is involved, whether a pool or outdoor kitchen is included, grading and retaining, and the level of lighting and planting. We give line-item pricing after seeing the site rather than quoting a number over the phone.

A patio and turf refresh often finishes in three to five weeks. A full transformation with hardscape, an outdoor kitchen, structures and lighting typically runs ten to sixteen weeks, and longer if a pool is part of the same phase.

Pavers cost more up front but flex with ground movement instead of cracking, and individual units can be lifted and replaced. Poured concrete is cheaper initially, but a crack means cutting out and repouring a section that rarely matches. On most Southern California soil we recommend pavers for anything you will look at every day.

Yes, and on most projects we insist on it. Correcting grade and adding proper drainage while the yard is already open is far cheaper than retrofitting it after new hardscape is down.

Yes. Design, permits, hardscape, structures, kitchen, lighting and planting run through one team and one project manager, so nothing gets lost between trades.