

596 households (16.4%) were one person and 390 (10.7%) had someone living alone who was 65 or older. There were 90 (2.5%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 20 (0.6%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. There were 3,631 households, 1,382 (38.1%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 2,456 (67.6%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 326 (9.0%) had a female householder with no husband present, 138 (3.8%) had a male householder with no wife present. The whole population lived in households, no one lived in non-institutionalized group quarters and no one was institutionalized. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1,174 persons (11.5%). The population density was 6,660.6 people per square mile (2,571.8/km 2). Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.54 square miles (4.0 km 2), all of it land.ĭemographics Historical populationĪt the 2010 census Rossmoor had a population of 10,244. It borders the cities of Los Alamitos and Seal Beach. Climate Īccording to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Rossmoor has a semi-arid climate (abbreviated BSh) with Mediterranean characteristics. Residents also voted down three separate utility tax proposals by a wide margin. The proposition for cityhood was resoundingly defeated by a vote of 72% to 28% indicating that the majority of residents desire not be incorporated as a city. However, the RCSD cannot make decisions about the future of the community, which is all delegated to the County of Orange's Unincorporated Islands Program and the Orange County Board of Supervisors.Īt the meeting, OC LAFCO recommended that the Rossmoor Incorporation Plan go to a vote of the community.Ī vote by residents on the issue of incorporation was held on November 4, 2008. The RCSD also administers street lighting, road rights-of-way services, and, subject to the consent of the County of Orange, the collection and disposal of garbage or refuse matter, and street sweeping. The RCSD provides services related to public recreation facilities and park development for Rush Park, Rossmoor Park, two mini parks and the Montecito Center. The mainly residential area is also served by the Rossmoor Community Services District (RCSD), which serves the community as an independent functionary does. Rossmoor is served by the Rossmoor/Los Alamitos Area Sewer District. Īnother proposal would combine Rossmoor with adjacent Seal Beach and Los Alamitos to form one city.
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Īlthough it is not part of the city of Los Alamitos, it is served under the Los Alamitos "sphere of influence" and was proposed to be annexed to the city by 2007 after the Local Agency Formation Commission reviews the proposal. On February 19, 2021, Assembly Member Nguyen introduced AB-1246 Community services districts.Īccording to a June 2006 consultant's report to the Rossmoor Planning Committee, the most cost effective solution for Rossmoor would be to be annexed by the city of Seal Beach. Rossmoor annexation debates 2020s AB-1246 Community services districts. There are 3,430 single family homes, 1 apartment complex (Accent Apartment Homes, originally Rossmoor Manor on Wallingsford Road), and 1 town house complex (Rossmoor Town Houses with addresses at 12100 Montecito Road or 3342 Bradbury Road) within Rossmoor. It is a signature of the Rossmoor community that differentiates it from neighboring cities Los Alamitos and Seal Beach. The Rossmoor community is easy to recognize because of its red brick "signature wall" that borders the entire unincorporated community. (It was Gittelson who later agreed to annex his Rossmoor Shopping Center property to Seal Beach in the late 1960s.) After Rossmoor, Cortese would construct the first of his very successful Leisure World gated retirement community in that part of Seal Beach which is immediately south of Rossmoor. Cortese's original partners in securing the first large parcels of land that would become Rossmoor included California governor Goodwin Knight and Judge Alfred Gittelson, who had also partnered with him in the Lakewood Rancho Estates and the Frematic homes. Cortese, who had earlier developed the architecturally-significant Lakewood Rancho Estates in Long Beach (1953) and the Frematic Homes (1954) in Anaheim, just north and west of Disneyland. The Rossmoor community was developed from 1955 through 1961 by Ross W. 2.1.1 AB-1246 Community services districts.
