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GREAT AMERICAN COMMUNITIES

rancho santa fe

The Covenant at 92067

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hat do Mary Pickford, Ocean in San Diego’s north county. In
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 2011, Forbes magazine named it the homeowners association that also rules
the golf course, tennis facility, riding
Sean White, Bill Gates, Janet Jackson, fourteenth most expensive ZIP code club, garden club, library guild, book
Phil Mickelson and Beach Boy Mike in the United States with a median club and 50 miles of riding trails that are
Love have in common, other than home sale price of $2,585,000. Locals available to members. “The Covenant”
wealth? The answer is all are a part of a have their own name for the enclave, of Rancho Santa Fe is registered as a
very select gang who live or have lived in including, “The Ranch” and “The Cov- California Historical Landmark for its
one of the 1,700 households in ZIP code enant”; those who wish they could status as a historic planned community.
92067 – Rancho Santa Fe. live there dub it “Rancho Smancho.”
Visitors driving in to see how the rich
The countryfied community fills 6,200 The core of Rancho Santa Fe is governed and famous live usually are disappoint-
acres just six miles from the Pacific
by The Covenant, kind of a high-end ed. Mansions on minimum two-acre es-

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