Aliso Viejo highlight
Master-planned South Orange County community
Incorporated in 2001 as Orange County's 34th city, Aliso Viejo was developed over 25 years from a 6,600-acre master plan created by the Mission Viejo Company.
The site for Aliso Viejo was purchased in 1976 by the Mission Viejo Company, which commissioned a comprehensive master plan approved in 1979. Homes were first offered for sale in March 1982, and the first residents moved into the new community that November. The development unfolded in phases over two decades, with the city formally incorporated on July 1, 2001, becoming the 34th incorporated city in Orange County and the first new city in the county since 2000.
The master plan allocated 2,600 acres to the Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, 800 additional acres to neighborhood parks, schools and community facilities, and 900 acres to the Pacific Park business district. The landscape is defined by natural boundaries formed by Aliso Creek and Wood Canyon Creek. This integration of developed residential neighborhoods with protected natural areas, school campuses, and business zones is the essence of the master-planned community design.
A master plan reflects a commitment to future stability. Families who choose a planned community are making a deliberate choice about where children will grow up and where work and home can coexist in walkable, known neighborhoods. Life insurance planning follows the same intentionality: choosing a coverage amount sized to the years until a mortgage ends or children reach independence, then locking that protection with a term policy.