Mission Viejo, California

Mission Viejo is a city located in southern Orange County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 93,102.

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Orange County, California - 2000

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Mission Viejo is suburban in nature. It is mainly residential, although there are a number of offices and businesses within its city limits. The city is planned and features a very large number of single-family homes, some condominiums, a college, and a regional mall. Education in the city is provided by two school districts (Saddleback Valley and Capistrano Unified School Districts), seven high schools (Mission Viejo, Tesoro, Trabuco Hills, Silverado, Capistrano Valley, Mira Monte, Pathfinder High Schools), a college (Saddleback College), and a number of middle and elementary schools.

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Suburb - Planned - Single-family home - Condominiums - College - Mall - Saddleback Valley - Capistrano - Tesoro - Trabuco Hills - Saddleback College

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Mission Viejo has numerous parks; there are about two per square mile. A private country club also exists.

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Parks - Square mile - Country club

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In 2004, unwelcome attention focused on the city after the city council, at the behest of numerous vocal residents, turned down a proposal to build a subsidized apartment complex on unused commercial land near the city's center. The dispute was characterized by distinct racial overtones, with one Mission Viejo resident declaring at a council meeting that the complex would "change the complexion of the town"; a flyer denouncing the proposal featured a picture of a dark-skinned man with the caption, "Do you want THIS PERSON in your city?" In the ensuing weeks, Los Angeles-area newspapers ran numerous exposés on the city's history of often-blatant racial discrimination and the far-right politics of its residents. The incident also highlighted southern Orange County's lack of housing for the working class and the poor, a situation due in large part to Mission Viejo's vigorous noncompliance with state affordable housing set-aside requirements.

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