Carlsbad California, (The Village by the Sea) has grown froma sleepy beach town to a premier coastal community. The city fatheres have done a renmarkable job is overseeing the tremendous growth. This area is truly a place you will want to visit again and again, to enjoy its breathtaking beaches, outstanding hotels, spas. and resorts. The city has been divided into quandants for easy idenification.
Northwestern Section is Carlsbad's oldest and most densely populated region. Though there are some newer developments, the area features many more established single-family homes, and in some cases, apartments and condominiums. Hosp Grove, a grove of trees relatively untouched by development and now designated by the city for recreational use, is located in the Northwest Quadrant, along with the Buena Vista and Agua Hedionda Lagoons.
Downtown Carlsbad, also known as “The Village”is generally located along Pacific Coast Highway or U.S. Route 101 and west of Interstate 5. It is currently in a process of ongoing redevelopment, and features many antique shops, clothing stores, and restaurants. Barrio Carlsbad is a small neighborhood south of the village. It is densely populated by Latinos and is the site of the city's Centro de Información, a Spanish division of the Carlsbad City Library. And Olde Carlsbad is essentially a catchall term to refer to all other areas. The area generally features older single-family homes. Streets in this area often lack sidewalks and lighting.
Northeast Carlsbad With the exception of one shopping center, the area is almost exclusively residential. The quadrant has many condominiums and single family homes, and the age of the housing units vary--some units are quite established while others, particularly in Calavera Hills, are currently under construction.
Calavera Hills is one of many of Carlsbad's planned communities. Calavera Hills features two elementary schools, one middle school, a very large community park, numerous pocket parks, trails, an artificial lake, and single family, attached, and apartment units. Calavera Hills is subdivided into neighborhoods, each of which are maintained by a homeowners association. Some, especially condominium developments, feature community pools. Much of the community, especially around Calavera Lake, is designated open space. Numerous trails exist near Calavera Lake for public use. Summerhouse is a residential area built in 2005. There are many nice, modern single-family homes here and some feature views of the preserve, and cool ocean breezes in the summer create desirable weather conditions. The Colony Homes in The Colony are in great demand due to unique cottage style homes with shingle facades, large front and backyards and quaint street names. Tanglewood: is a condominium complex located near Carlsbad Village. A homeowners association maintains homes, landscaping, and a community pool. Although all units in the neighborhood are town homes, all residents benefit from separate garage units. This is a very beautiful and desirable town home complex. Robertson Ranch is currently a proposed large development project. Development is anticipated through 2010. It will most likely be the site of three schools. Sunny Creek is a smaller single-family development. A shopping center is being planned for the area. When completed, it will be the only shopping district in Northeast Carlsbad, outside of the Tri-City area. The Summit (north) is a townhouse development currently under construction. One of its main purposes is to alleviate pressure to develop land on or near the Buena Vista Lagoon, which is seen as highly undesirable to most residents The Summit (south):This is a residential area built on a series of small hills, and is made up of several developments, including Tamarack Point, Falcon Hills, and Carlsbad Meadows, that were completed in the late 1990s.
Southeast Carlsbad Properties
The southeastern quadrant is Carlsbad's newest quadrant, containing many Master Planned Communities, most notably The Villages of La Costa, which includes the completed Master Planned Community of La Costa Valley, the nearly completed La Costa Oaks, the half-completed La Costa Greens and La Costa Ridge, still in the grading phase of construction.
Bressi Ranch is a very large mixed-use development. It features a village core with retail businesses surrounded by dense residential tracts (over 800 units) sprinkled with parks and tied together with trails. There is an income restricted section featuring a group of small apartments segregated from the mostly single family detached houses starting at well over $1 million with estates well over 6,000 square feet large. There is a commercial and light industrial buffer zone also. This is a truly new urbanist style community although the retail and commercial components are not yet built. There is a new elementary school under construction. There are plans for a very nice park, containing picnic areas, ball fields and Water Park and more. Rancho Carrillo is centered in a picturesque canyon surrounding the historic Leo Carrillo Ranch Park. Over half of the canyon and hillsides are dedicated as preserved open space and a year round stream flows through the canyon. Rancho Carrillo offers a balanced mix of about 1,500 residences from condominiums and townhouses to large estates. La Costa refers to both a residential community of Carlsbad and the world-class golf and tennis resort and spa that thrives at its center. The La Costa Resort & Spa consists of two 18-hole golf courses, resort hotel and condominium units, 19 tennis courts and related retail businesses. La Costa the community is mostly residential, with shopping centers, upscale boutiques and fine dining restaurants. La Costa's development began in 1965. A golf course was developed and homes began to be sold. The 90-room Rancho La Costa Inn was built to accommodate the visitors. Then, the Spa was added and ultimately, another 2,000 acres were purchased as the Inn grew in size.
Southwest Carlsbad The southwestern quadrant is one of the city area's that is fastest increasing population. Ponto Area is a single-family home, and, mobile home residential community. While the mobile homes are quite established, the homes located in the neighborhood are very new and some of the only new homes close to the ocean in the entire state. Plans to further build and redevelop the older portion of the area are currently awaiting approval by the city. Some of the newer proposals for the area are live-work units, where a business owner is able to live one story above an establishment, eliminating the need for a commute. The Ponto Area is located near the city's southern border with Encinitas. Aviara is a resort community in the hills of southern Carlsbad, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Batiquitos Lagoon. The community has a total area of 1.6 miles. Aviara boasts of a movie theater, many fine restaurants, jewelry boutiques, a branch of the Carlsbad City library, U.S. Post Office, and a slew of saloons. In addition, Aviara has some spectacular Hotel-Spa Resorts.
Aviara features a championship 18-hole Arnold Palmer golf course, which is open to the public as well as to hotel guests. The golf course meanders through the Aviara neighborhoods offering views to visitors of Aviara homes, many in gated communities featuring large estates. Miles of sidewalks and tree-lined streets characterize Aviara. Hikers, runners and bicyclists use the Batiquitos Nature Trail, which overlooks the Batiquitos Lagoon and the Aviara Golf Course.
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