The urban spread has been an ananathema for the California Housing Planners for the last 10 years. As he passed the law after ending zoning for solo-family houses and emphasizing high-growing buildings and other infil housing near the mass transit, which became the old California pattern pace of the building outwards.
Probably not anymore.
In the last few months, two potential large -scale new development emerged from the ambiguity of different possibilities in the last few months.
A Sonano will be in most rural parts of the county, which is once-ankhakha area, which covers the most of the ground between the Sacramento and San Francisco Gulf region and spreads to the south towards Stockton. The second will expand Fresno to the south.
Together, two proposed developments (neither have yet won the approval of a single government agency) may be responsible for many as many new housing units, mostly single families. This will provide a large part of 1.8 million new housing units in an estimate of the requirement of current housing from the state’s housing and the Community Development Department.
But some words of caution are advised here: Tejon Range. Housing Advocates rejoiced in 2021, when the large land company with a large amount of empty assets in the grape area between Los Angeles and Bakersfield was cured from the Kern County. But after less than two years, a judge of the Los Angeles County sent the project back to the drawing board, and its approval process can now pull for many years.
Nevertheless, in this era, when every new law looks for a knockdown on shops, gym and other commerce in exchange for a new apartment buildings for existing housing and commercial buildings, there may be a wide appeal to new houses on agricultural land.
In the Solano County, Loren Powell Jobs, a group of billionaires of Silicon Valley, including widow of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Corp, and other enterprise capitalists, quietly bought more than 55,000 acres (78 sq mi) development and other low-density development. They appear to be ready to pay whatever punishment is required to get the land out of agricultural use, where the Williamson Act of the state has long given a priority to the tax status in exchange for the remaining villager.
The approximate new city, which will have more than 10,000 acres of parks, can eventually become the largest city in Solano County, where Fairfield County seat and other important places include Rio Vista, Wakeville, Dixon and Suisun City.
To change the use of so much land, first the entire county vote will be required and then a group of other permits from the state and regional agencies. So this year is far away, but promises a lot of affordable housing, as well as European -style homes for rich buyers. And great benefits for billionaire investors.
Then on the edge of the fresno is the southeast development zone, a most of the rural areas of about 9,000 acres, whose potential developers will be one of the largest suburbs of the Fresno, promise a series of “walkable” neighborhoods. The plans temporarily call for each neighborhood to their own primary school, community parks, shops and parks. A lot of public transit is also proposed.
It will also require public votes and innumerable government permits before going further.
In both places, local opposition has already been formed. Former school student, Solano County Supervisor Monica Brown told a reporter that “we are growing food and helping people (now). Why will you stop economic growth like this? Why will they spend $ 800 million and won’t be transparent about it?”
Brown maintained five years of secrecy investors during the became the largest landlord of Solano County. His spokesperson replied that privacy was required to prevent the increase in the price of speculative land.
At the same time, school officials and others are concerned about “gapping hole” in infrastructure if the plan of the southeast moves forward.
But potential developers from both areas say that they will take care of all those concerns.
So it will initially have to decide local voters: what they want new, but traditionally California-style developments, or do they want to quit things alone and thus the state has emphasized urban infils? Or can these potentially new suburbs be the harboringers of other new developments in the desert of California and the Central Valley?
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