Neighborhood with Serra Mesa Community Park & Recreation Center, Cabrillo Heights and Civita Park.
Search this neighborhoodSerra Mesa is a neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the San Diego Police Department’s neighborhood outlines, with about 27,000 residents. Its edges follow Aero Drive and Mission Center Road on the north, Friars Road on the south, I-15 and I-805 on the east and I-805 and Mission Center Road on the west. Parks inside it include Serra Mesa Community Park & Recreation Center (19.7 acres), Cabrillo Heights (13.9 acres), Civita Park (12.5 acres) and Murray Ridge Neighborhood Park (10.7 acres). Other places inside it include Serra Mesa-Kearny Mesa Library and Angier Elementary School.
By area, Serra Mesa is zoned mostly Residential - Single Unit (RS-1-7, RS-1-4), Residential - Multiple Unit (RM-1-1, RM-2-5) and Open Space - Residential (OR-1-1). Transit with a stop inside it includes Green Line trolley (El Cajon - 12th & Imperial), Route 928 (Fashion Valley - Kearny Mesa) and Route 25 (Fashion Valley - Kearny Mesa TC). Permits issued here over the past year, still open, are mostly combination building permits and building permits. Run an address search on CivicScout to see the details for a specific property.
CivicScout counts San Diego Police Department offense reports that carry a map location inside the Serra Mesa police-neighborhood outline. Citywide, about 3% of offense reports, and about the same share of reports of serious violent crime (about 1 in 8 rape reports), carries no map location and is not counted, and the newest weeks are still being filled in as reports are approved, so the counts understate crime, violent crime included, and cannot show that an area has little of it. Sex offenses are shown at block level, about 100 meters, without a case number. The department’s own process entries (mental-health holds, warrants, probation and parole lines, citations and infractions) are not counted. Incidents handled by other police agencies do not appear: federal military bases, the airport and the Port of San Diego tidelands (the Port’s Harbor Police), UC San Diego and San Diego State University (campus police), the City, Mesa and Miramar colleges, the California Highway Patrol on the freeways, the Sheriff in the unincorporated county, and the police departments of Coronado, National City, Chula Vista and the other neighboring cities.
View safety data →Permits issued in Serra Mesa over the past year, still open, are mostly in the categories combination building permits and building permits. San Diego’s permit data covers about the past 21 months and leaves out trade, sign, traffic-control and right-of-way permits; a permit with no map location (about 1 in 400 active permits) is not counted in any neighborhood.
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View new construction →Zoning in Serra Mesa is mostly Residential - Single Unit, Residential - Multiple Unit and Open Space - Residential, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →A CivicScout report for any Serra Mesa address combines permits, police reports, 311 requests, parks and zoning within a half mile. San Diego’s 311 data (Get It Done) shows only open requests from the past 90 days, so a request that has been resolved is not shown and an address with none listed may still have had one.
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