Description: House elevations, plans, and descriptions of features from an original late 1960's marketing brochure for University Hills, a single family development by the Ray Hommes Company in University CIty San Diego.
University Hills is a single family development built by the Ray Hommes Company in the 1960s in the University City neighborhood of San Diego. It's one of several single and multifamily developments on the mesa bordered by Rose Canyon in the North, Interstate 5 in the West, State Highway 52 in San Clemente Canyon on the South, and Interstate 805 in the East. This area is referred to as South UC by local residents. University City was a planned development designed by architect William Krisel for developer I
The five road-sheds comprising University Hills have some correspondence to different development phases. Aerial photographs on the cover of an original 1 960's marketing brochure and other sources show areas west of Genesee bordering Governor developed by 1964, east of Genesee developed by 1966, and the Lahite Ct and the plateau north east of it was completed by 1980. A map in the EIR for the latest UC Plan Update provides new information on the development as well as neighboring ones.
Ray Lloyd Hommes (Nov 7 1900 - Aug 3, 1983) was a prolific developer of homes and military bases in California and the Western States who is all but forgotten compared to contemporaries like Joseph Eichler. These tract houses were designed to appeal to a broader demographic than Eichler's with transitional touches like English cross timbering and Mansard Roofs or rustic features like wood siding, and cedar shakes and shingles on the roofs. As such they don't stand out as dramatically as the Eichler's from