If Quay Valley Ranch is built, would YOU move to it? (San Luis Obispo: environment, agriculture)

[centralcali19]

A proposed city in Central California, in Kings County on the I-5. It will be 100% solar power town, with a hugh entertainment complex, racetrack, and nice neighborhood, would you like to live there?

[susie4]

Way too hot out there. I'd never move in that direction.

[grisandole]

Sounds interesting, do you have more info? I love the heat

[centralcali19]

for more information, you can go to quayvalleyca.com you can see the project info. maps, and videos....the projected town will have 150,000 residents in 40 yrs...

[lighight]

Racetrack, "entertainment complex", track home living...not my style. It disturbs me that the term "green" is being used to describe plans that are hardly friendly to the environment. Reading about these plans months ago made me renew my membership to the Sierra Club. Hopefully, they'll take interest in fighting this every step of the way.

It will be a nightmare if it ever breaks ground.

[kettlepot]

Well, I agree with the first responder, way too hot out there for me, dry and desolate, but given the heat and the amount of sun available in California, at least they are thinking about solar. Also, the best way to do solar is to build it into the original construction not trying to add it on later. Tract housing, etc., not my style either, but some people like it. But as for it not being friendly for the environment, well, no it isn't, but it could be worse. Plus, those 20 million people who will be moving into California over the next 30 years have to live somewhere.

[grisandole]

I'm not a fan of new tract housing, but it is great to see a planned community that will be built using solar energy as well as utilizing water conservation methods. I like the central valley, and would consider moving to such a development if the price was affordable and my husband could get a teaching job there that paid comparable to what he is currently making.

[greatbasinguide]

For a start not one in ten will know how to pronounce the name.
2. This is that lovely ground alongside I5 south of Kettleman City, north of Buttonwillow.
3. desolate dry hills once the mecca for thousands of RVs with off road vehicles.
4. A few local geographic names; Devils Den, Diablo Range, Lost Hills, Temblor Range, Sand Ridge
5. The reason for the emphasis on water recycling is also the most probable reason this project will never be built, there isn't any. Tulare Lake so lyrically described on the home page has been dry for a hundred years, except during runoff periods
6. Another planned community lies shriveled and dry just to the west, the sad California Valley.
7. It lies an easy 30 miles east of the "Earthquake Capitol of the World" Parkfield, lying atop the San Andreas fault, studied intensely as it is predicted to shake in this vicinity at 7+.
8. my math tells me this city will be 20 square miles with according to their site, a build out of 150,000 people, that is a huge population per square mile. Not quite as crowded as Harris Ranch, but a similar environment.

Humor; just to the west lie the Las Colinas hills. My Spanish translator tells me Colinas are hills, an Anglo linguistic screwup like Cuesta Grade just north of San Luis Obispo

[little-rodeo]

Affordable housing within a sustainable commuinty....heck ya' I'd consider living in Quay Valley.

[kingscountycowgirl]

The Tulare Lake is dried up because the water was diverted by levee's and dikes into a canal system that supplies water for the entire valley. There is plenty of water there to be used, enough for the full buildout, it only takes water rights, which have been secured. The water reclaimation system that is proposed will revolutionize the way water is used in the area for agriculture and for development.