[quote=The-Shoveler]This has very little chance of working even if passed (unless EV’s become much cheaper and more practical)
1) People will not be driving less because they can’t.
(there is no room, they MUST expand/sprawl).
2) There will be more mass transit so that will help a little but driving your own car will always be more convenient and desirable for most.
3) there will be about 15-20 million more people living in Socal over the next 50 years, they are going to live where?[/quote]
Shoveler, I don’t know how you can claim 15-20 million people can fit into the available housing in SoCal. Newcomers won’t come if they can’t find housing in the area. That’s the way it works all over the west coast. Your city/county governments don’t owe newcomers anything and never have. If they can roll into town and find an existing home they want to buy and get their offer accepted on it or find an acceptable rental to move into, fine … more power to them. The six-county urbanized So-Cal area (4 coastal counties) is pretty much built out and it’s not in anyone’s best interest to create more sprawl … assuming there was actually somewhere available to build subdivisions. Most existing residents don’t want any more people, nor do we need any more.
Cities and counties aren’t obligated to issue ANY more building permits if it will financially break them to service any more outlying areas, as has happened repeatedly in the past. The outlying areas left in SD County are mostly full of very heavy rock and as such, these hilltops cannot possibly be graded properly for roads and home pads (or it would be too cost-prohibitive to do so). Face the fact that land available for subdivisions is long gone. Even major US developers have been quoted to corroborate this fact on national TV in recent years and have packed up their trailers and split SD for good. Sorry to have to break it to you, but LA County is not going to suddenly start issuing building permits for its hundreds of acres of coveted and environmentally-sensitive open space. And that is as it should be (LA is the only SoCal County that was smart enough NOT to sell out to Big Development in the past 25-30 years.)
So Cal is running out of water and we’re done. Newcomers and everyone else must accept existing housing if they want a single family home. High rise condos MAY be able to be built as infill, after something else is razed. It all depends on zoning and ability to get something like that permitted. A project like this will be an uphill battle for a spec builder all over SoCal on a case-by-case basis. Good Luck with getting 15-20 million more people in SoCal …. won’t happen.
