Population Forecast
I just read in the paper that the maximum capacity of Santa Clarita is 500k residents! OMG. While planners work on preparing for this influx over the next decade, I can’t help but feel frustrated about it at the moment. As I drive through my neighborhood I see at least one for sale sign on each block. If Santa Clarita is going to double in size, I’d like to live by ’supply and demand’ rather than ‘if you build it they will come’. I just want to scream STOP! Am I the only one that feels like this? I mean I know there has to be planning and preperation for this, but as a resident I am so sick of the traffic and sick of construction. I just want the madness to stop. I want our housing prices to go back up. Quit building the cookie cutter homes and give our residents the power of the supply when the demand comes. We have enough McMansions, perhaps building another hospital or maybe a high school or two would be a priority.
Sorry to sound so bitchy about this today, it’s just frustrating and while I am trying to look at the big picture, sometimes I just don’t want to. The article only discussed water supply and the "circulation element" (getting people from point A to point B). When I read that line I couldn’t help but feel like a hamster in a habitrail.
B | May 20, 2008 | Reply
Do you really think home builders have a “build it they will come” business model? It is supply and demand. That is why there is very little building right now. Your home value (as well as mine) will go up when people want to and can afford to move in. Move to North Dakota if you want the madness to stop. I am sure no one is building “McMansion” there.
admin | May 21, 2008 | Reply
Very little building right now? Are you kidding me? They are building 3200 homes across the street from my neighborhood. Not to mention what will be built off the 126 and what is being built over by Newhall Ranch and Bouquet. (Oh and let’s not forget Castaic, you know the city with no high school.)
When I see so many for sale signs on beautiful homes that are 4-5 years old it is frustrating. No, I don’t think builders have “build it they will come” business model. Honestly, I don’t really care about their model. All I know is how it affects me on a daily basis. North Dakota? Why the hell would I do that when I can sit in my McMansion in southern Cali.
B | May 21, 2008 | Reply
They are currently building 3200 houses or planning to build 3200 houses? Big difference. If they were actually building houses it would mean that there were not thousands of potential foreclosures (hence your for sale signs). I would love more people who wanted to come and have a low supply vs. a huge supply and no one coming. Then maybe our home values would go up, tax revenue would go up, money to build high school, hospital, road expansion. ect.
admin | May 21, 2008 | Reply
If you drive by Copper Hill and Tesoro Del Valle you can see that the homes are being built. Unless they pull the plug and leave the mountain as a flat land they will build the homes as previously stated. End of discussion.