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Useful URLs Regarding Natural Hazard Environment Information
in the Antelope Valley
Why is there a LAND RUSH in the Antelope Valley?
Useful URLs Regarding Natural Hazard Environment Information
in the Antelope Valley
1. Seismic Liquefaction Maps in California
http://gmw.consrv.ca.gov/shmp/html/pdf_maps_so.html
2. Fault Zone Map in Antelope Valley Area
http://www.consrv.ca.gov/CGS/rghm/ap/Map_index/F4E.htm
3. Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
http://www.lacsd.org/Final%20PWRP%202025%20Plan/Figures.htm
4. Calculator
http://www.csgnetwork.com/righttricalc.html
5. FEMA Maps (flood, earthquakes, fire, hurricanes and tornadoes):
www.fema.gov
a. Click on “Flood” in the center area of the page.
b. Click on “Flood Map” on the left side.
c. Click on “Map Search” using the top tabs, the United States map will appear.
d. Click on the area you are researching. Then zoom in until you locate the index number.
e. Click on the Target icon, move the cursor to the index number on the map, you will see the results.
f. Click the icon under “View”, the flood map in the area will be displayed
6. L.A Zoning website http://regionalgis.co.la.ca.us/imf/sites/GISNET_pub/jsp/launch.jsp
7. SAN BERNARDINO
http://www.sbcounty.gov/ttc/tr/trsearch.asp?scretry1=yes&
8. Pay Dirt (Darren Proulx, Radio)
http://www.wsradio.com/wsradio-player.cfm/type/windows/show/
Entrepreneur-Magazine-Law-&-Money-Show/segment/4665.html
Why is there a LAND RUSH in the Antelope Valley?
Forget the current cyclical housing “down turns”, housing “busts”, mortgage “crisis”, etc.
Recently, I have been involved in purchasing more than 30 parcels of land in the Antelope Valley. Not one seller was selling for fear of falling prices. All were demanding increases in prices and getting them from us, private developers and other companies involved in land banking. WHY ARE LAND VALUES NOT DECLINING IN ANTELOPE VALLEY?
There is no other area in the United States that has the density of population and the net growth rate that can compare to the 60 miles radius surrounding the center Los Angeles. Combine that fact with the huge economic engine in that area (LA is the 11th or 12th most powerful economy in the world) and what do we have? AN UNPRECEDENTED DEMAND FOR LAND!!
On July 12, 2007 the Southern California Association of Governments and on September 11, 2007 the California Department of Housing and Community Development released the Regional Housing Needs Assessment requiring north Los Angeles County to increase the total number of dwelling units by 73,519 BEFORE June, 30, 2014. They have less than seven years to accomplish that feat.
Of that amount, Palmdale is expected to add 17,910 of the new dwelling units, or 24% of the total before June 30, 2014. Lancaster has been assigned to add 12,799 new units, or 17% of the total before June 30, 2014.
The two cities have approximately 83,767 existing dwelling units. Together they are expected to increase the number of units by 30,709—a 36.7% increase in the next 7 years. Those numbers do not include the additional expansion in the other areas within the Antelope Valley. Now you know why private developers and land bankers are quietly, but very intently, buying land in the Antelope Valley.
DON’T WAIT. THERE IS NOTHING IN THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE THAT INDICATES LOWER PRICES.
