Mission Viejo, California 2014 - 0518-0083 Oso Creek.JPG Mission Viejo L Lake Mission Viejo, Olympiad Rd, Mission Viejo Library, Oso Creek, Mission Viejo City Hall Official seal of Mission Viejo, California Location of Mission Viejo inside Orange County, California.
Location of Mission Viejo inside Orange County, California.
Mission Viejo, California is positioned in the US Mission Viejo, California - Mission Viejo, California Mission Viejo / m n vi e ho / is a town/city in Orange County, California, United States in the Saddleback Valley.
Mission Viejo is considered one of the biggest master-planned communities ever assembled under a single universal in the United States, and is rivaled only by Highlands Ranch, Colorado, in its size.
Mission Viejo is suburban in nature and culture.
The city's name is a reference to Rancho Mission Viejo, a large Spanish territory grant from which the improve was founded.
Mission Viejo was purchased by John Forster, a Mexican also known as "Don Juan". During the Mexican-American War, Forster provided fresh horses to United States military forces which were used on the march of San Diego to retake Los Angeles.
Mission Viejo was a hilly region primarily used as cattle and sheep grazing land, since it was of little use to farmers.
In 1960, early developers dismissed most of the territory in Mission Viejo as simply "undevelopable". Donald Bren, an urban planner who later became the president of the Irvine Company, drafted a master plan which placed roads in the valleys and homes on the hills, and contoured to the geography of the area. The plan worked, and by 1980 much of the town/city of Mission Viejo was completed.
During the late 1970s and the 1980s, homes in Mission Viejo were in such high demand that housing tracts often sold out before assembly even began on them. The homes and shopping centers in the town/city are almost uniformly designed in a Spanish mission style, with "adobe"-like stucco walls and barrel-tile roofs.
Many point to Mission Viejo as the first and biggest manifestation of Bren's obsession with Spanish architecture.
The business period its operations and went on to build the Lakes universal in Tempe, Arizona, Mission Viejo Aurora in Colorado and was the initial master planner of Highlands Ranch, both in the Denver Metropolitan area.
The seal of the town/city of Mission Viejo was designed and drawn by Carl Glassford, an artist and former resident of the city.
Lake Mission Viejo Mission Viejo is positioned at 33 36 46 N 117 39 22 W (33.612739, 117.656038). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.1 square miles (47 km2).
A momentous portion of the surface water is held in Lake Mission Viejo, an artificial lake stretching approximately one mile from Olympiad Road to Alicia Parkway along Marguerite Parkway.
Mission Viejo appreciates a borderline semi-arid/Mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification BSh/Csa), with mild temperatures and plentiful sunlight year-round.
Climate data for Mission Viejo, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Mission Viejo had a populace of 93,305.
The ethnic makeup of Mission Viejo was 74,493 (79.8%) White (68.9% Non-Hispanic White), 1,210 (1.3%) African American, 379 (0.4%) Native American, 8,462 (9.1%) Asian, 153 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 4,332 (4.6%) from other competitions, and 4,276 (4.6%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 21,270 citizens (22.8%) under the age of 18, 7,852 citizens (8.4%) aged 18 to 24, 21,648 citizens (23.2%) aged 25 to 44, 29,003 citizens (31.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 13,532 citizens (14.5%) who were 65 years of age or older.
72,390 citizens (77.6% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 19,973 citizens (21.4%) lived in rental housing units.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Mission Viejo had a median homehold income of $96,088, with 5.3% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Aerial view of Lake Mission Viejo and the encircling developments (2014) The Mission Viejo-Lake Forest-San Clemente urban region (which also includes the metros/cities of Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Woods, Rancho Santa Margarita and San Juan Capistrano) had a populace of 583,681 at the 2010 Census.
Mission Hospital is the biggest hospital in south Orange County and serves as the area's county-wide trauma center.
Mission Viejo has various recreational areas such as the Norman P.
The town/city has three golf courses, The Mission Viejo Country Club, Casta del Sol Golf Course, and the Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club.
At the center of the town/city is a man-made lake, Lake Mission Viejo, a private association for Mission Viejo inhabitants with custom waterfront homes, condominiums, boat and paddle board rentals, fishing, and swim beaches.
Lake Mission Viejo also holds affairs such as music concerts and movie screenings, usually complimentary for members and typically amid the summer season.
The Shops at Mission Viejo and the Kaleidoscope Center serve as the city's two chief shopping, dining and entertainment centers.
Mission Viejo also hosts a number of athletic affairs such as 5 - K runs and triathlons throughout the year.
Mission Viejo is a general law city, which operates under a council-manager form of government.
The Mission Viejo City Council consists of five members propel at-large to staggered four-year terms.
The Mayor, who has equal legislative power with fellow members of the City Council, serves as the ceremonial prestige of the town/city and as the presiding officer of the bi-weekly City Council meetings.
In county government, Mission Viejo is positioned in the 5th District of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, presently represented by Lisa Bartlett.
In the California State Legislature, Mission Viejo is in the 36th Senate District, represented by Republican Patricia Bates, and in the 73rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Bill Brough. Federally, most of Mission Viejo is positioned in California's 45th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R +8 and is represented by Republican Mimi Walters.
Mission Viejo has a primary youth athletic facility, Mission Viejo Youth Athletic Park.
It is host to Little League District 68, AYSO Region 84, and four competing soccer clubs: Pateadores Soccer Club, Mission Viejo Soccer Club, West Coast Futbol Club, and Saddleback United Soccer Club.
The Mission Viejo Nadadores Swimming and Mission Viejo Nadadores Diving Team won a string of nationwide championships and produced a number of Olympians and world record holders in the 1970s and 1980s.
Mission Viejo hosted the Road Cycling Events amid the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles.
There is also a soccer facility, now used by the town's youth soccer program, that was used as a training field by the United States men's nationwide soccer team before and amid the 1994 FIFA World Cup, hosted by the United States.
Mission Viejo is the biggest AYSO Region in the country.
The Saddleback College ballpark hosted the Mission Viejo Vigilantes minor league baseball team of the Western Baseball League from 1996 2001.
Mission Viejo is also the hometown of NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez, Minnesota Twins pitcher Phil Hughes, and Chicago White Sox first baseman Adam La - Roche, former Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Don August, Boston Red Sox outfielder Allen Craig, Top Shot Season 4 Champion Chris Cheng, and PBA Tour Champion Scott Norton.
The Mission Viejo Library was assembled in 1996 97 and period in 2000 02.
Mission Viejo is served by two school districts, the Capistrano Unified School District and Saddleback Valley Unified School District.
As of 2006, all high school students in the Capistrano Unified portion of Mission Viejo attend Capistrano Valley High School.
Students from Mission Viejo (north of Oso Parkway and west of Marguerite until Alicia Parkway) attend Saddleback Valley's Mission Viejo High School.
Far northern Mission Viejo attends Saddleback Valley's Trabuco Hills High School, though most of that school has students from Rancho Santa Margarita and Lake Forest.
A several inhabitants attend Tesoro High School in Las Flores or the private Santa Margarita Catholic High School in Rancho Santa Margarita.
Silverado High School, Mira Monte High School, and Pathfinder are continuation and adult schools inside the city.
Silverado High School provides a day school surrounding while Mira Monte, which shares the same campus, is strictly autonomous study.
Saddleback College, near The Shops at Mission Viejo and Capistrano Valley High School, is a large improve college in the southern half of the city.
In addition, the University of California, Irvine, Chapman University, Soka University of America, and California State University, Fullerton (Irvine Campus), are close-by in adjoining cities.
Mission Viejo inhabitants refer to La Tierra as "The Little School with a Big Heart".
O'Neill Elementary, the city's first elementary school, closed in June 2009 also due to budget cuts in SVUSD.
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