He developed a lot of ideas about how rural communities thrive, and after the war, he got a chance to found a small town in California called Arlanza Village. Among the reasons are that in clearing the area for development it lead to an increase in dust storms. The town’s first post office opened in 1960, and soon after it got a ZIP code. However, on closer inspection one quickly notices something missing: houses.
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All anyone had to do was to buy a few thousand acres of worthless scrubland, secure access to the state’s all-important water vouchers, and sell the property in quarter-acre units to new arrivals. Trained in sociology, he specialized in rural land use, which he both taught and applied during the war as a government analyst studying farm profitability. At some point, the Corrections Corporation of America blessed the town with a jobs-generating prison nearby, and canny developers turned the town’s lakefront property into something nice that could be found in any city. Hours: 8:30am – 5:30pm Mon-Thurs; Alternating Fridays 9:00am - 4:00pm. How can you help?
Wikimedia CommonsCompletely empty and unmarked streets lie unvisited in the desert. That was sociology professor Nat Mendelsohn’s plan when he bought up 80,000 acres of completely inhospitable dirt in the empty Mojave Desert. Mendelson’s plan was like that of a number of real estate developers in the 1950s and 1960s. Geographically, California City is the state’s third-largest incorporated city, and its vast, never-settled streets stand today in mute testimony of the dreams of its founders. He had always been a gifted student, and his background could hardly have been better for a future town father. Wikimedia CommonsA ghostly wooden sign invites new residents to look into what California City has to offer. California Government Code Sections 34502 and 56722. But California city isn’t entirely empty. The first municipality to incorporate was Sacramento on February 27, 1850, while the most recent was Jurupa Valley on July 1, 2011. Visit top-rated & must-see attractions. More information about the city can be found at www.californiacitychamber.com. In the year 2010-2015, the Census Bureau estimates that the population actually dropped by a thousand or so people, to an estimated 13,277. It is by this metric of its geographical size, that California City can lay claim to being the third largest city in California and 34th largest in the nation. Please click below to consent to the use of this technology while browsing our site.
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