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Real Estate Appraisers and Appraisals In
Orange County, City of Lake Forest
| This city was created
in 1991. Residents voted to name the city Lake Forest, after an expensive gated
residential community, denying the longer claim to the territory by the
community of El Toro. Since being founded, it has expanded its limits to
include the new communities of Foothill Ranch and Portola Hills. The
multiplicity of names often creates confusion for mailmen and appraisers alike:
some people in the Portola Hills neighborhood, for example, can receive mail
addressed to them at Portola Hills, Lake Forest, or Trabuco Canyon. The City of
Lake Forest hosts the headquarters for hard-drive maker Western Digital and
telecommunications software developer Greenlight Wireless Corporation. Lake
Forest is also home to two county parks. Whiting Ranch in the eastern part of
the city was the site of a famous Mountain Lion mauling in 2003 that captured
the West Coast news media. Heritage Hill historical park is home to some of the
oldest buildings in the county including the Serrano Adobe, the old El Toro
School House, and St. Georges Episcopal Church. In 1994, Kathryn McCullough
(who now serves as a member of the City Council) became Mayor, the first
African-American mayor of any city in Orange County. |
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