Yesterday, driving on the stretch of Ted Wiliams Parkway between I-15 and I-5, I was again amazed at the square lifeless stucco boxes on both sides of the road. Subdivision after subdivision of ugly stucco boxes. Don’t these builders care how these damn thing looks from the freeway?
In their hurry to erect more buildings to meet the fake demand created by speculators, they threw good architecture out the window. Just build something, anything fast.
Where are the trees? The mandatory landscaping on the slope surrounding the development? It was so sad,to think of all the creativity we humans have, and that none of it was used in erecting those subdivisions.
My guess is those crap boxes will lose their value the fastest, up to 50% in my opinion. If you have a choice, and you will when inventory hits 60,000, why would anyone buy one of those ugly houses?
The homes with style, character, will be in higher demand and fall less (only 35%?).
So those are my ramblings for today…Hopefully I didn’t frustrate anyone too much with this post.
You’re right – they’re ugly. I was out bike riding along the path by Highway 56 on Sunday, and had plenty of time to take a peek. I almost get depressed thinking that I might some day, accidentally perhaps, end up living in one of those.
I agree that landscaping has a decent amount to do with it. You can soften anything with a good amount of trees, plantings, etc. Trees aren’t cheap though, and while you’re planting trees you’re wasting time as you could be BUILDING MORE HOUSES!!!!!
I feel sad for those people that moved into one of those as a stepping stone. “Must buy something, ANYTHING” was the idea. Then, of course, they’d make tons of money and magically move up to a much nicer house in La Jolla, which of course had also magically moved up in price and was still unaffordable.
Take a drive through Bressi Ranch if you want to see architecture gone awry. Nothing like cracker box houses, alleys for driveways, narrow streets, and best of all Colonial, Spanish, and a bunch of other styles next to one another. Absolutely no flow whatsoever when you have something that looks like the front of the white house next to a stucco’d, Spanish style home.
Take a drive through Bressi Ranch if you want to see architecture gone awry. Nothing like cracker box houses, alleys for driveways, narrow streets, and best of all Colonial, Spanish, and a bunch of other styles next to one another. Absolutely no flow whatsoever when you have something that looks like the front of the white house next to a stucco’d, Spanish style home.
I agree with JES (both posts) on the mish-mash of styles in some of these subdivisions. I perceive that as detracting from the sense of neighborhood. I realize they don’t want everything to look the same, but “similar” is not the same thing as “same”.
Yeah, I wonder what will happen to places like that.
Most of the time, I think they’ll get torched/bulldozed or simply rot away, and I can’t help but regret the waste of resources like wood, metal, plastic these horrible houses are responsible for.
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