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[ D • Describe the future growth potential of this area:

According to "Population and Housing Data Related to Pro-

jections for Los Angeles County & Santa Clarita Valley", a report

[] by the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning, dated

July 17, 1985, stated that rapid growth will continue through the

year 2010. From 1970 to July 1, 1985, the population increased

from an estimated 50,000 to 96,000. During the same period the

number of housing units more than doubled from 14,700 to 30,328.

It is anticipated by the Department of Regional Planning that the

population of the Santa Clarita Valley will be _162,000 by 1995 and
Li 218,000 by 2010. 2

In the -adopted 1982 Growth Policy Forecast Study, the

Southern California Association of Governments projected that the

I Santa Clarita Valley will grow by 86,000 people in the ensuing

fourteen years and that the area will add 49,000 jobs, thus

increasing the total employment for the area more than 200%.

These projections are based on the of indus-

trial locations in North Los Angeles County, the attractiveness of

the area, affordable housing, freeways and the limited amount of

industrial zoned inventory in the San Fernando Valley and greater

Los Angeles area. -- '¾._,.

currently there are three primary industrial parks in the
[ Santa Clarita Valley:

1) The largest, Valencia Industrial Park, contains more
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than two hundred businesses and employs in excess of 6,000 work-

[ ers. Still undergoing expansion, in 1985-86 a 150 acre parcel,

featuring high technology industry and office buildings, was added

to the center. 200 acres are yet to be developed.