In Tejon Valley, developers are playing an enigmatic game of Sim City. There is 270,000 acres, 60 miles north of Los Angeles, that the developers have allocated to create into a thriving community. Population increases have created overbearing pressures on communities near LA, leading to higher real estate prices. LA has tried to mitigate these problems by creating a denser downtown and have re-invited their citizens to inhabit LA. Tejon Valley is another solution, which was and is popular in California; sprawl out and build unclaimed land. A good example of this is Irvine, CA, which has currently become a self sustainable community in which workers enter the neighborhood to work and return to outer ring neighborhoods where they reside. Tejon Valley will take about 20+ years to build and most of the developers involved in the project will not even see the fruition of their work.

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