Backyards with privacy

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I have been checking out neghborhoods and have yet to find one with decent privacy in the back yard. I find it ridiculous you can spend 7 figures on a house and can have 4-5 neghbors have clear views of your backyard from their second floor bedrooms.



Quail hill is the biggest joke, the neighbors above you have a clear view of all that goes on through the iron fence.



Which neighborhoods have decent privacy for a 2500sf house?
 
it depends, are you set on Irvine? The biggest and the most private backyards under 2 mil that I know are in the Nellie Gail Ranch in Laguna Niguel, check it out.
 
[quote author="Kali" date=1209027310]I am looking primarily in Irvine and would like it to be in a gated community.</blockquote>
Good luck on that. Large private back yards require either large trees to obscure the view from second floor windows, or single-story homes on large lots with high fences and flat-land. Most of Irvine is excluded from either of those qualifications, and when you add the 'gated community' requirement, you can rule out the rest of it. Any tree large enough to provide privacy in the back yard would undoubtedly violate some HOA or solar-panel ordinance. And there isn't a subdivision in Irvine with both gates and single-story homes and no hills.
 
[quote author="Kali" date=1209027310]I am looking primarily in Irvine and would like it to be in a gated community.</blockquote>


Shady Canyon?
 
Feh. Just move to the Tustin Foothills and construct your own gate. No HOAs and likely no Mello-Roos. It's unincorporated county land, so the odds of code enforcement visiting absent a nuclear reactor in your yard are slim to none.
 
[quote author="Kali" date=1209027310]I am looking primarily in Irvine and would like it to be in a gated community.</blockquote>


<a href="http://www.redfin.com/stingray/do/printable-listing?listing-id=1631235">Here is one with privacy in Irvine.</a>



<a href="http://www.redfin.com/stingray/do/printable-listing?listing-id=1427802">Here is another.</a>



If you don't mind backing up a major street or arterial road, there are a bunch of others. There are some in the newer, more northern portion of Tustin Ranch as well. Just have to look hard as they are hard to come by in these parts.



Many houses in Aliso Viejo have good backyard privacy as a result of elevation changes between streets in a tract.
 
I would not recommend the Puerto property if you are looking to stay for the long haul. That land will be developed at some point. You might check with the City to see what is proposed for it in the current Specific Plan. Given that the plans are re-done every five years or so, what they say it is now may not be the same zoning in 10 years.
 
[quote author="irvine2010" date=1209024078]try ladera ranch, also some parts of anahiem hills specially the serrano ave area.</blockquote>


Make sure you get a soils check on Serrano. Expansive can be expensive.
 
I'm so glad I can't see into my neighbor's back yard. I once caught a glimpse through the fence of his lady friend sunbathing...topless.

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Have you checked out Harvard Square. It is a gated community.The floor plans built by Standard Pacific and other builders are away from the freeway and they have pretty large backyards with fair amount of privacy.
 
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