What to expect in San Luis Obispo in 12 years? (Los Angeles: place to live, prices)

[the city]

Originally Posted by mono#9

Thank you so much, "the city", for all your great info and links. My husband and I are seriously considering SLO county in about a year. We just need to decide which area would be best for us--this will help a lot in making our decision. I appreciate it!

No problem. I would say Paso Robles is best right now. Tax revenue is down by 20% in Atascadero. Paso Robles in about 20 years won't be nice though. If you can afford to live in Pismo Beach, then I'd say there. If your into small towns, then Templeton. Paso Robles has a growing gang problem and the school is overcrowded, but that is trying to be fixed. limit of the school is at 2,00 and the school population is at 2,500.

Templeton High School is great though. They have every sports team there except the aquatic sports and wrestling which in a couple they will have. The dang school just built 1.3 million dollar bathrooms for the new football, and now were down by 1.5 million dollars. We still need to pave the track field, relocate the soccer field to the front field so were not sharing fields with jv football, and add a baseball field on campus where the old jv football field used to be. Oh, and then we need a new weight room for a wrestling team. And a new class wing would be great also. The school has tons of land, but no money. The school's barely at 800 students right now. The school needs donations.

[the city]

So, as everyone knows. Atascadero will be getting a Wal-Mart center to up tax, San Luis Obispo is getting an open-air mall, and Paso will becomming the largest city in the county by 2015.

Here's a new article on Paso becoming bigger:

San Luis Obispo County’s website | 02/11/2008 | Paso pursues plan to alter state formula for housing (broken link)

[the city]

Latest Dalidio news: Airport Land Use Commision is going to be striking down his housing projects first since they interfer with the Aeronatics Act.

reasons why Lowe's is leaving:
1)home improvement in sales are down and keep going down due to the poor housing market in san luis obispo
2)home depot is not doing good in sales
3)Lowe's already has plans to build in paso where our home improvement sales and market is going up
4)Lowe's store will be cut down by 10,000sq. ft. from county ordinances limiting size of big-box stores

JcPenney's and no other department store has showed interst in Dalidio Ranch project. Macy's has offered to go in the project though if the project has other speciality clothing stores (and the stores that go with those stores), they have a modern architecture design, 125,000sq. ft. building, and that there the second anchor. They're basically saying they want to be in a mall-a regional open-air mall.

And comparing our area to Placer county. they have a lifestyle shopping center, an enclosed mall, a downtown, and strip shopping mall.
we have the outlets in pismo beach, the slo promenade as a strip mall, and the downtown in san luis obispo. we don't have a mall like most cities yet though.

[NorthernCalifornia]

It will still be a small town.

[the city]

would anyone else like to give any feedback on San Luis Obispo getting a regional open-air mall in Dalidio's land?

[Capt. Dan]

So the city of SLO still wont allow a KMart or Wal Mart in the city limits?

[the city]

Originally Posted by Lt. Dan

So the city of SLO still wont allow a KMart or Wal Mart in the city limits?

That's correct, and no need since Arroyo Grande has both.

[the city]

Okay, since im not getting a lot of responses on what ppl think of SLO in 12 years....

which city do u think will get a regional open-air mall first? paso or san luis obispo?

[PasadenaGuy]

I hope to retire to SLO County in 12 years, or sooner. Thanks for all the great info. My wife and I have been frequent visitors to the area for many years. I always suspected the Nipomo/Arroyo Grande "Mesa" area would get built out - it has the coastal climate and lots of flat, buildable land. What about that idea?

I have been considering the North County mostly due to housing prices being a little lower with more land (e.g 2-4 acre plots). And frankly, I enjoy the valley heat vs. the coastal fog.

Compared to LA, all of SLO is "small town" - I just hope it can stay that way for a few more decades. ;-)

[the city]

Originally Posted by PasadenaGuy

I hope to retire to SLO County in 12 years, or sooner. Thanks for all the great info. My wife and I have been frequent visitors to the area for many years. I always suspected the Nipomo/Arroyo Grande "Mesa" area would get built out - it has the coastal climate and lots of flat, buildable land. What about that idea?

I have been considering the North County mostly due to housing prices being a little lower with more land (e.g 2-4 acre plots). And frankly, I enjoy the valley heat vs. the coastal fog.

Compared to LA, all of SLO is "small town" - I just hope it can stay that way for a few more decades. ;-)

well, Dalidio has the only land for a mall in San Luis Obispo. it could be he starts to move around anyway possible that he gets the most money of his project. a mall would bring less money than a big box center, and even if Lowe's leaves he could get JcPenney's. only if Dalidio couldn't get both of those stores then he would have no choice to take Macy's offer to be in a mall.

North County, depending on how Paso grows, could be the spot for a mall and the large growth I'm hoping for. north county or south county is going to have to grow. paso has more families and youth and doesn't have the retirees with high incomes, so no chance of a nice upscale lifestyle shopping center.

and arroyo grande and nipomo are about the same size, about 20,000 population are just bed-room communities for san luis obispo. nothing more.