Granada's street design reflects the best of Burnham's thinking about urban design. This would be the first time that the Burnham street plan would be breached. El Granada Highlands was added to the Burnham Plan in 1920 using existing roads in the Burnham hillside pleasure park. Clipper Ridge is outside of the tract of Granada and therefore does not infringe on the Burnham Plan. Previously, they were used for cattle grazing.
Local memory indicates the crop was generally irrigated artichokes.
The USGS 1946 aerial indicates row crops on both parcels. El Granada School and what appears to be pasture land on the east parcel. The west parcel appears to be in agricultural use. The pasture land was until recently a horse boarding operation. Three or four years ago, the pasture was plowed and seeded to rye grass to enhance the horse feed.