Recorded on 6/7/2026 at 02:33 PM PDT
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[00:00:00.130 --> 00:00:01.470] All right. So as [00:00:01.470 --> 00:00:02.830] promised, just [00:00:02.830 --> 00:00:05.100] going to do a few [00:00:05.100 --> 00:00:06.300] minutes here on the [00:00:06.300 --> 00:00:08.980] history of Norbalinda [00:00:08.980 --> 00:00:10.740] and Eastlake. [00:00:11.680 --> 00:00:12.780] So, yeah, we're on [00:00:12.780 --> 00:00:14.080] this beautiful [00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:16.200] trail here in Eastlake [00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:17.950] Village, which is [00:00:17.950 --> 00:00:19.440] what we would call [00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:20.370] a master plan [00:00:20.370 --> 00:00:21.440] community here in [00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:23.030] Southern California. [00:00:23.030 --> 00:00:23.990] So depending on [00:00:23.990 --> 00:00:24.700] where you live, you [00:00:24.700 --> 00:00:25.890] may not be familiar [00:00:25.890 --> 00:00:26.780] with what a master [00:00:26.780 --> 00:00:27.800] plan community is, [00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:28.360] but, you know, [00:00:28.360 --> 00:00:29.450] increasingly [00:00:29.450 --> 00:00:30.830] popular in the last [00:00:30.830 --> 00:00:32.280] 30 years, really, [00:00:32.340 --> 00:00:33.300] as you go into [00:00:33.300 --> 00:00:34.340] suburbs in the [00:00:34.340 --> 00:00:35.840] United States, can't [00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:37.030] speak for other [00:00:37.030 --> 00:00:38.800] countries, really. [00:00:39.620 --> 00:00:39.880] You know, maybe [00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:40.970] Canada. This is a [00:00:40.970 --> 00:00:41.830] thing. Definitely [00:00:41.830 --> 00:00:42.500] the United States [00:00:42.500 --> 00:00:43.420] and then definitely [00:00:43.420 --> 00:00:43.870] in Southern [00:00:43.870 --> 00:00:44.500] California. [00:00:44.500 --> 00:00:45.760] So, you know, land [00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:46.650] is at a premium [00:00:46.650 --> 00:00:47.630] here in Southern [00:00:47.630 --> 00:00:49.630] California. And so, [00:00:49.630 --> 00:00:51.540] you know, they chop [00:00:51.540 --> 00:00:52.880] it up and they [00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:54.770] create a plan. [00:00:54.890 --> 00:00:55.840] Right. What are we [00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:56.240] going to do with [00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:56.920] this? It's not [00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:58.690] really organic. It's [00:00:58.690 --> 00:00:59.550] it's thought [00:00:59.550 --> 00:01:01.680] through and, you [00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:01.820] know, [00:01:01.820 --> 00:01:02.910] people get degrees [00:01:02.910 --> 00:01:03.990] in figuring out how [00:01:03.990 --> 00:01:05.280] to arrange things [00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:05.960] that are optimal [00:01:05.960 --> 00:01:06.880] for people. [00:01:07.740 --> 00:01:07.840] And of course, [00:01:07.790 --> 00:01:09.000] there is some time, [00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:10.130] you know, relevance [00:01:10.130 --> 00:01:11.650] to that temporal [00:01:11.650 --> 00:01:12.610] relevance, I guess, [00:01:12.610 --> 00:01:14.050] in the sense that, [00:01:14.050 --> 00:01:14.670] you know, [00:01:14.670 --> 00:01:15.180] as things change [00:01:15.180 --> 00:01:16.150] over time, you know, [00:01:16.150 --> 00:01:17.190] 10 years go by, 20 [00:01:17.190 --> 00:01:17.810] years go by. [00:01:17.930 --> 00:01:19.920] It's not quite as, [00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:21.420] you know, accurate [00:01:21.420 --> 00:01:22.430] with what the needs [00:01:22.430 --> 00:01:23.090] of the of the [00:01:23.090 --> 00:01:24.100] current moderate [00:01:24.100 --> 00:01:24.960] person are. [00:01:25.140 --> 00:01:26.100] But, you know, by [00:01:26.100 --> 00:01:27.490] and large, 10, 20 [00:01:27.490 --> 00:01:28.320] years going by here [00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:28.990] doesn't seem to [00:01:28.990 --> 00:01:29.730] have changed too [00:01:29.730 --> 00:01:30.220] much. [00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:33.150] So anyway, that's [00:01:33.150 --> 00:01:33.790] what a master plan [00:01:33.790 --> 00:01:34.670] community is. And [00:01:34.670 --> 00:01:35.510] part of a master [00:01:35.510 --> 00:01:36.540] plan community are [00:01:36.540 --> 00:01:37.510] going to be things [00:01:37.510 --> 00:01:38.470] like this, like [00:01:38.470 --> 00:01:39.200] walkways. Right. [00:01:40.320 --> 00:01:41.600] You know, with the [00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:42.480] homes kind of [00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:43.820] behind you or, you [00:01:43.820 --> 00:01:45.360] know, to each side. [00:01:45.980 --> 00:01:47.090] So, yeah, that's [00:01:47.090 --> 00:01:47.430] pretty cool. [00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:48.860] You know, real [00:01:48.790 --> 00:01:49.710] quick, yeah, [00:01:49.710 --> 00:01:50.190] history of Yorba [00:01:50.190 --> 00:01:50.720] Linda. [00:01:51.860 --> 00:01:52.820] So Yorba Linda is a, [00:01:52.820 --> 00:01:53.940] you know, I guess [00:01:53.940 --> 00:01:55.390] it's a municipality [00:01:55.390 --> 00:01:56.630] city in Orange [00:01:56.630 --> 00:01:57.490] County. [00:01:59.000 --> 00:01:59.100] But and now it's [00:01:59.000 --> 00:01:59.160] like heavily [00:01:59.160 --> 00:02:00.320] populated, you know, [00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:01.080] it's probably like [00:02:01.080 --> 00:02:02.680] 75, 80,000 people [00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:03.180] here. [00:02:03.610 --> 00:02:04.880] But, you know, back [00:02:04.880 --> 00:02:06.240] in the day, 150, [00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:07.620] you know, years ago, [00:02:07.620 --> 00:02:08.550] there was no one [00:02:08.550 --> 00:02:09.160] here. [00:02:09.160 --> 00:02:11.160] It was basically [00:02:11.160 --> 00:02:12.480] one one guy. [00:02:12.920 --> 00:02:13.880] His name was Yorba [00:02:13.880 --> 00:02:15.280] and he owned [00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:16.770] essentially, you [00:02:16.770 --> 00:02:17.790] know, all this [00:02:17.790 --> 00:02:19.700] property down here [00:02:19.700 --> 00:02:21.250] in Orange County. [00:02:21.470 --> 00:02:22.740] And, you know, he [00:02:22.740 --> 00:02:24.550] established some [00:02:24.550 --> 00:02:25.980] agriculture here. [00:02:26.270 --> 00:02:27.790] So it was basically [00:02:27.790 --> 00:02:29.720] a giant farm later [00:02:29.720 --> 00:02:31.460] that was purchased [00:02:31.460 --> 00:02:33.110] and continued to [00:02:33.110 --> 00:02:33.980] thrive as an [00:02:33.980 --> 00:02:35.860] agricultural, you [00:02:35.860 --> 00:02:37.410] know, location in [00:02:37.410 --> 00:02:38.850] Orange County. [00:02:38.990 --> 00:02:39.950] But then towards [00:02:39.950 --> 00:02:41.000] like the mid 20th [00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:42.460] century, you know, [00:02:42.460 --> 00:02:43.280] as people started [00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:43.780] coming to [00:02:43.780 --> 00:02:44.540] California in [00:02:44.540 --> 00:02:45.420] larger, larger [00:02:45.420 --> 00:02:46.960] numbers, the land [00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:48.590] was, you know, [00:02:48.590 --> 00:02:50.860] broken up into parcels [00:02:50.860 --> 00:02:53.110] for development of [00:02:53.110 --> 00:02:55.450] homes and housing. [00:02:55.450 --> 00:02:56.540] And then especially [00:02:56.540 --> 00:02:57.460] in the last, you [00:02:57.460 --> 00:02:58.950] know, 30 to 40 [00:02:58.950 --> 00:02:59.740] years, like all of [00:02:59.740 --> 00:03:00.630] the land, every [00:03:00.630 --> 00:03:01.720] corner, every inch [00:03:01.720 --> 00:03:02.600] of Yorba Linda is [00:03:02.600 --> 00:03:03.420] now, you know, [00:03:03.420 --> 00:03:04.540] developed in some [00:03:04.540 --> 00:03:05.100] way. [00:03:06.530 --> 00:03:06.690] So, yeah, I mean, [00:03:06.690 --> 00:03:08.140] that's a little bit [00:03:08.140 --> 00:03:09.910] of the history. [00:03:09.910 --> 00:03:10.890] And then Eastlake [00:03:10.890 --> 00:03:11.920] was one of those [00:03:11.920