Cedar Hills

Cedar Hills is the name of two towns in the United States:

See also

Cedar Hills, Oregon

Cedar Hills is a census-designated place and neighborhood in Washington County, Oregon, south of U.S. Route 26 and west of Oregon Route 217 and within the Portland metropolitan area. Constructed starting in 1946, Cedar Hills was the largest single housing tract development in the western United States at the time of its completion in 1961.

Originally located in unincorporated Washington County, part of the neighborhood has since been annexed by the city of Beaverton, and in a plan agreed to by the county and Beaverton the remainder is scheduled for annexation in the future.

The formal Cedar Hills neighborhood currently includes 2,114 homes, whose owners are subject to the rules and covenants enforced by the area's homeowners' association, the Homes Association of Cedar Hills.

The population was 8,949 at the 2000 census.

History

Plans to build the large new neighborhood were announced by the project's developers in April 1946, and construction of the first 50 homes had begun by then. Along with roads and utilities, the plans included a shopping center, schools, parks and churches, in a neighborhood of around 2,000 homes on about 800 acres (320 ha). A writer for The Oregonian newspaper at the time called it "the most ambitious surburban housing development ever attempted in the Northwest".