While environmentalists cheer the legislation enacted this week, desert officials worry the new law will stymie economic development.
Today, there are fewer than 10 million Joshua trees in California. They occupy an area of land larger than the state of Connecticut. But they reproduce slowly, and under specific conditions that are rapidly disappearing due toA paper published in June 2019 by researchers at UC Riverside’s Center for Conservation Biology predicts that. In the worst-case scenario, the 160,000 acres of land in Joshua Tree National Park capable of supporting the iconic trees will drop to just 37 acres.
Although environmentalists cheered the new law, officials representing Mojave Desert communities expressed frustration over what it could mean for economic development in the region. “The bill still imposes very high costs on residents, businesses, and local agencies,” the statement concludes. “This will discourage the building of much-needed homes, stifle economic investment, increase development costs in the region, and significantly harm the county’s Mojave Desert communities and residents.”
According to real estate website Redfin, the median price for homes sold in the High Desert city of Hesperia between April 1 and June 29 was $426,500. In the desert city of Palmdale in the same period, it was $432,000. In contrast, according to real estate firm CoreLogic, in April, the median home price for Southern California was $800,000.“Even small projects are going to be costly for my constituents, who live among a plethora of these shrubs masquerading as a tree,” he said.
“Rural communities are forgotten in this institution,” Lackey said. “This will surely worsen the state’s ability to grapple with its housing shortage by depressing development and frustrate the communities’ ability to meet regional housing goals set forth by this body.”
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