Mission Viejo
Mission Viejo was a hilly region primarily used as cattle and sheep grazing land, since it was of little use to farmers. This city was one of the last regions of Orange County to be urbanized due to its geologic complexity. Mission Viejo was purchased by John Forster, a Mexican also known as Don Juan. During the Mexican-American War, Foster provided fresh horses to United States military forces which were used on the march of San Diego to retake Los Angeles.
In 1960, early developers dismissed most of the land in Mission Viejo as simply “undevelopable”.[3] 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 houses on the hills, and contoured to the geography of the area. The plan worked, and by 1980 much of the city of Mission Viejo was completed. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, houses in Mission Viejo were in such high demand that housing tracts often sold out before construction even began on them. The houses and shopping centers in the 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 largest manifestation of Bren’s obsession with Spanish architecture. Bren’s company was also the creator of the developments in Irvine, and Newport Beach suburbs. The company expanded its operations and went on to build the Lakes project in Tempe Arizona, Mission Viejo Aurora in Colorado and was the initial master planner of Highlands Ranch, both suburbs of the Denver Metropolitan area.
The Seal of the City of Mission Viejo was designed and drawn by Carl Glassford, an artist and former resident of the city.
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$379,995 : 22792 La Quinta DR, Mission Viejo2 beds, 1 full, 1 part baths
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$539,000 : 27622 Sweetbrier Ln, Mission Viejo3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
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$680,000 : 26621 Sotelo, Mission Viejo4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
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$244,000 : 23374 Coso 153, Mission Viejo2 beds, 1 full, 1 part baths
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$389,000 : 28925 San Solarie 111, Mission Viejo2 beds, 2 full baths
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$735,000 : 22401 Birchcrest, Mission Viejo4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths
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$539,900 : 25472 Maximus St, Mission Viejo4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
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$429,000 : 21761 Tobarra, Mission Viejo3 beds, 2 full baths
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$269,000 : 23514 Coso 201, Mission Viejo2 beds, 2 full baths
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$599,900 : 27362 Via Amistoso, Mission Viejo6 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths
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$669,000 : 26972 Venado Dr, Mission Viejo5 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
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$624,900 : 24701 Via San Fernando, Mission Viejo4 beds, 2 full baths
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$649,900 : 24572 Mosquero Ln, Mission Viejo5 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
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$439,900 : 22424 Porreras 9, Mission Viejo2 beds, 2 full baths
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$359,000 : 10 Via Sonrisa, Mission Viejo3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
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$410,000 : 27714 CALLE VALDES, Mission Viejo2 beds, 2 full baths
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$575,000 : 25 Cantata Dr, Mission Viejo3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
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$469,900 : MLS # S697852 in Mission Viejo2 beds, 1 full, 1 part baths
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$475,000 : 21842 Jinetes, Mission Viejo4 beds, 2 full baths
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$575,000 : 22342 Destello, Mission Viejo3 beds, 2 full baths
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