[quote=The-Shoveler]We still have rising living standards (average house size still keeps growing every year),
SoCal (and Nor-Cal really) are just becoming Growth adverse.
Most other states don’t have that problem.
It’s just here for the most part.[/quote]
Shoveler, ALL of coastal CA has ALWAYS been “growth averse.” It has always been much more difficult for a developer to obtain subdivision permits in coastal CA counties than in 90% of the rest of the nation.
And rightly so. There IS only ONE CA coast and it SHOULD, for the most part, be preserved as much as humanly possible.
OTOH, there is still a lot of room in most of the flat states of “flyover country” but most of these cities are now suffering from issuing too many subdivision permits haphazardly in the past and lacking services for them (police, fire, public works, etc). For example, Oklahoma City is now a whopping 68 miles wide and over 30 miles long. The state has no Mello Roos or any bonds in place to build infrastructure for newer areas so those isolated subdivisions are virtually in the boonie plains whose residents have very slow response times in an emergency.
Just because other states’ jurisdictions have allowed residential building ad infinitum in past decades doesn’t make it wise … or right. Only time will tell what happens to the subdivisions on the edges of OKC. They could end up as ghost towns. There’s talk of the Big Five oil companies conducting massive local layoffs if prices don’t pick up soon.
