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City of Aliso Viejo
12 Journey, Suite 100
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656-5335
Phone: (949) 425-2500

City of Aliso Viejo Work, Live and Play in a Beautiful Community…

Aliso Viejo provides for a balance between projected jobs and projected residential workforce. It was designed to make it possible to live, work and play in the same community.

The Mexican land grant (1841) named a station in the area, Cañada de los Alisos from which the developer, The Mission Viejo Company, named the City of Aliso Viejo. In Spanish, Aliso Viejo means “old alder” which is appropriate as alder trees still grow in the bed of the creeks that run through the City. The Spanish influence is apparent throughout the community in the naming of streets, creeks, communities, and parks.

HISTORY of ALISO VIEJO
The Mexican government originally granted the land, now known as Mission Viejo, to Juan Avila in 1842. In 1890 the Moulton family took title to 22,000 acres out of which the Mission Viejo Company purchased 6,600 acres in 1976 for California’s first master- planned community. That development is now part of Aliso Viejo. Aliso Viejo became Orange County's 34th city on July 1, 2001. This planned community was targeted to middle and upper-middle income homebuyers who clamored for the homes, condos, and apartments which developers could not build fast enough. Designed to make it possible to live, work and play in the same community, Aliso Viejo continues to grow and prosper even today.

Early settlers enjoyed a period of great prosperity and following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and petitioned in 1850 to become the 31st state in the union. 

RECREATION IN ALISO VIEJO 
Aliso Viejo can boast of its 23 parks and over 25 classes and leagues offered at public schools, local parks, and private businesses for children and adults. The park system, including the Grand Park Outdoor Amphitheater, encompasses 2,600 acres in regional parks and includes tennis, soccer, baseball, tot lots, hiking trails, and picnic tables.

Annual community events include the 4th of July Picnic & Concert at Grand Park, Easter Egg Hunt & Pancake Breakfast at Grand Park, Santa's Arrival & Tree Lighting Ceremony, and the Summer Concert Series at Town Center.

The 3,400-acre Aliso and Wood Canyons Regional Park is contiguous with three sides of Aliso Viejo. Scenic canyons, rock formations, oak and sycamore groves, a fresh water marsh and miles of hiking and biking trails with more than 90 species of birds may be seen at the Aliso and Wood Canyons Regional Park. 

DEMOGRAPHICS
The City of Aliso Viejo encompasses 6.9 square miles and is located at the southern end of Orange County. It is approximately 10 miles from John Wayne Airport, 20 miles south of Santa Ana, the County Seat, and 3 miles inland of the Pacific Ocean. 

EDUCATION - 
Capistrano Unified School District oversees most of the schools within Aliso Viejo, but three additional districts also converge here; Saddleback Unified School District, Laguna Beach Unified School District, Capistrano-Laguna Beach Regional Occupational Program, South Orange County Community College District, and Soka University. Education, both public and private, flourishes here on all levels. Aliso Viejo is also within proximity to California State University, Fullerton, and The University of California, Irvine, all recognized as excellent schools.

Contact Aliso Viejo: info@cityofalisoviejo.com

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