[quote=FlyerInHi]BG, developers can add a lot of housing along the 15 and 215. Yeah, I see sprawl.
Did you see Victorville? Costco, restaurant row, etc…
Did you see Corona? Dos Lagos shopping center, etc..
They are not all workerbees who commute to West LA to work.
I just hope that Google/Apple or whoever comes up with creative destruction to bring us autonomous cars and better means of transport. Many of the parking lots could be re-purposed. Developers would love that![/quote]
FIH, if you’re claiming retirees (people who aren’t “worker-bees”) are moving to the high desert en masse, I would tell you that these are very likely NOT prior dwellers of CA coastal counties. They are likely previous inhabitants of AZ, NV or the inland counties of CA, where they weren’t able to recover a princely amount of equity from the sale of their long-owned home, necessitating finding a less expensive place to retire. Sorry, but longtime residents of CA coastal counties generally aren’t going to trade their current (likely paid-for) house to retire in the likes of Victorville, Hesperia or Palmdale, etc.
I did see a big shopping complex (outdoor mall?) off the I-15 service road in Victorville (right side headed south). Are you SURE this wasn’t built to serve passing tourists? I’ve seen factory outlet stores up there in a couple of towns which were built mainly for tourists passing through, evidenced by their massive billboard advertising on I-15.
Yes, I drove (northbound) through Corona on 7/29 and noticed that there is now a lot of newer commercial development in that corridor. That area isn’t considered “outlying.” It is within a well-established area of RIV County and so this newer development would be considered “infill.” Corona, a fairly large city, is only a hop and a skip away from the Orange County line.
