About 450 houses have been sold so far at Riverstone and 73 at Tesoro Viejo, which already has a school (Hillside Elementary) plus a cafe and fire/sheriff’s substation in its fledgling “town center.” Together, these “master-planned communities” along with other proposed developments with names like Gunner Ranch West, North Shore at Millerton and TraVigne form what Madera County officials project will be a city of 120,000 people. — The Fresno Bee
California's urban housing crisis, fueled by lackluster housing production in the state's population centers, is fueling sprawl that is eating up wilderness and agricultural land around cities like Fresno.
Madera County supervisor Brett Frazier told The Fresno Bee, “The assumption was this was just going to be another bedroom community. But when you drive through it you see it’s something different. In the next 20 years, it’ll truly be a new city.”
Interesting. In a state with a lack of affordable housing and out-of-control real estate prices, this doesn't necessarily seem like a bad thing. With the right planning, it could be an incredible opportunity to essentially plan a new city in a way that is responsible, but also responsive to current homeowners needs and desires. One hopes that the public sector isn't completely handing the keys over to the developers, and that meaningful public-private sector collaboration leads to something thoughtful, innovative, and progressive.
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It won’t be a new “city”. It’ll be *another* box store hub (Walmart, McDonalds, TGIF, Costco, Starbucks, etc) surrounded by new homeowners who ‘need’ to purchase lawn care equipment, new cars and entertainment systems. And they’ll have no other options nearby, so most of their paychecks will just feed the suburban beast.
Interesting. In a state with a lack of affordable housing and out-of-control real estate prices, this doesn't necessarily seem like a bad thing. With the right planning, it could be an incredible opportunity to essentially plan a new city in a way that is responsible, but also responsive to current homeowners needs and desires. One hopes that the public sector isn't completely handing the keys over to the developers, and that meaningful public-private sector collaboration leads to something thoughtful, innovative, and progressive.
https://commonedge.org/the-invented-reality-of-suburbia-is-not-the-norm/
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