Santaluz

Santaluz (“Sacred Light”) is a masterpiece golf course neighborhoody embodying the best of San Diego coastal living in a highly desirable, private residential area east of Rancho Santa Fe. 

Santaluz encompasses 3,690-acre development, which was approved for development at a low residential density of one dwelling unit per four acres of land.

Santaluz began the development history shortly after the Mexican-American War in the 1880s.  Peter and Angela Lusardi owned most of the Santaluz property from the 1890s to the late 1920s. Then along came the original Hollywood power couple: silent screen stars Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and his wife, Mary Pickford. They purchased 3,000 acres in northern San Diego County including a portion of Santaluz.
The pair saw the area as a retreat and honored the land’s agrarian ancestry by planting thousands of citrus trees and acres of beans and vegetables to feed cattle that still roamed the area. By the time the property was sold in 1952, Fairbanks and Pickford had long divorced (Fairbanks passed away in 1939) and the area northwest of Santaluz would become the development called Fairbanks Ranch.
The property continued to change hands without much other change until Taylor Woodrow Homes, Inc. and DMB Associates, Inc. joined together in the late 1990s to design a resort community that returned the landscape to its native state of chaparral, grasslands and verdant knolls. 
The centerpiece is a championship-worthy, 18-hole golf course designed by Rees Jones. It too works in concert with the native flora and fauna to create an unrivaled showcase and a challenging game of golf for members of the Club.