Talega, San Clemente, California
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- "Talega" redirects here. For the disputed town with that name in the Iberian Peninsula, see Táliga.
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Talega is the name of a huge tract housing project in the city of San Clemente, California in Orange County, California. It began construction in 1999, and is set to be complete in 2007. Many different tract-home builders bought subdivisions and built on them.
It is located near the Northrop Grumman Capistrano Test Site (formerly TRW), active today and where the Lunar Module Descent Engine (LMDE) engines were developed in the 1960s for the moon landing. It is about 8 miles from the San Onefre nuclear power plant and just north of the Camp Joseph H. Pendleton Marine Base.
There is an 18 hole golf course, 2 elementary schools, and a middle school. It is served by the Capistrano Unified School District, and was recently annexed to San Clemente from the unincorporated territories it existed in upon the beginning of construction.
Living in the hills only 3 miles from the Pacific Ocean, one feels the salt air and gets the early morning sun - whereas the folks closer to the water get the cloud cover most mornings in the spring/summer months. Talega is a master planned community with their own community events and an association fee. It is a mix of apartments, senior living and mostly single dwelling homes. Home prices are roughly $500K-$2M plus due to the run up on housing prices in the mid 2000's. Almost all the parks in the community have views, as well as all the pools and community clubhouses. It was created to bring a sense of an Old Time Neighborhood (ad copy) feel back to Southern California, which was achieved with high-density development, overuse of cul-de-sacs and scattered small parks to try to replace the yards mising from most homes' tiny lots.
Talega is home to 9,000 residents and, when completed, will have a total of 3,500 residential units. Most are tract houses, with apartments, condos and even a low-income project that share the same master pools and facilities. There are no full-custom homes - the most expensive homes in the Lucia subdivision are McMansions. The community has a predominant Spanish/Tuscan architecture, which is carried out in almost every home, and all the public spaces and buildings within the community.
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Talega.TV one guy's photos of a model from the most expensive Lucia subdivision.
