great post bear, I was hoping you would come in and pinch hit!! My theory on acreage is similar to my theory on boats, have friends with them, be a good guest and avoid all the work. So when people ask about de luz or la cresta, etc., since my only exposure is drinking at a party, all I can say is “nice houses” that’s about it.
Bear is right, the road plans are real but they hem and haw over the specifics and haven’t really done much lately. The east end of deer hollow is going to be an engineering feat when they try to connect it, I’ve stood at the dead end of that 4 laner and it just drops into oblivian a few hundred feet. They wont be able to grade and pave, sometimes I wonder if they made a mistake and gave up. All the money they are putting into the 79 interchange and pechanga parkway, I wonder if they are really going to put in the butterfield bypass for a decade or two, the pechaga parkway expansion finally started and with the construction slowdown the bids were all well below what they budgeted so maybe we will see some movement on the anza rd plans now that it is cheaper.
Bear, your predictions are an track for the specific price points in specific neighborhoods.
Temeku, don’t lose too much sleep, Morgan will always be a nice place to live. I’ve seen the plans for the eastern bypass that was supposed to run from the 15 to Pechanga and up through Morgan on Butterfield and then Butterfield could take you all the way to winchester road, bypassing temecula entirely, so someone going to hemet or the wine country would never enter the city. The snag to that is the financial interests and sales taxes, allowing tourists to bypass the gas, retail and food on 79s and rancho cal isn’t in the city’s best interest and the chamber and others will be quietly against it. It makes sense but planners get nudges and sections don’t get finished in municipalities somehow when they will hurt revenue. It may go through but it wont be the path of least resistance so you wont end up living next to the autobahn. Ever notice how the only viable ways to travel North/South (Ynez or Margarita), both somehow twist and turn so you end up driving right by the Mall. That stuff is on purpose.
