I only know about Poway: their general plan is to keep all their open space, all 13,000 acres (?). Poway has the most open space of any city in the County, and has turned away all developers, while Chula Vista embraced them. Poway gets lots of revenue from the auto dealerships on Poway Rd, and the Poway Industrial Park on Scripps Poway Parkway. All that can happen in Poway is infill projects, on various vacant lots.
I asked the City Assistant Manager, “Well, where will all the people live? Population is increasing”.
He answered, “Not in Poway. We don’t want to get any bigger”.
So, it becomes someone else’s problem… That doesn’t seem right to me. If our population keeps increasing, where will they live?
The County also has a general plan. Where I lived before off Highway 67, the area was zoned agricultural from Ramona to Lakeside. Minimum 4 acre lots. That entire area could be used for housing, but is not zoned for it, and the County has refused to change the general plan. The area is full of Preserves.
If you want to know more, talk to the planners at the County, and ask them where they think the increasing population will live. What does SANDAG think? This has puzzled me for some time. Will Chula Vista keep growing? Or Temecula? Will we keep building more highways so people can keep driving? This won’t work when we have $100 or $200 oil.
