Opinion: Build more houses! Use less water! California, can you have it both ways?
Thousands of new apartments will be built in Irvine, and this create cognitive dissonance for Stan Jones. The planned 24-acre lagoon at “Cotino, Storyliving by Disney” in Rancho Mirage, and the 17-acre Wavegarden Cove Pool and Resort in Palm Desert, do much the same for Paul Burt of San Pedro. Larry Anderson shakes his head, too. He tracks construction within a 40-mile radius of Hemet and counts more than 7,000 new units planned or already rising, even as the governor implores Californians to dramatically cut water use to deal with historic drought and officials scold us for falling short.
-Written by columnist Teri Sforza.