Tejon Ranch

Tejon Ranch lies 110 km from Downtown Los Angeles. At eight times the size of the city of San Fransisco, it is the largest owned parcel of land in Southern California. Tejon Ranch Trust,which now owns the land as a publicly traded trust, recently came to an agreement with the State of California and several environmental groups, including The Sierra Club and The National Resource Defense Council, to develop approximately 1/12 of the land.

Quail Lake reservoir runs just to the south of the proposed Centennial Ranch Development. The Development, scheduled to be completed by the year 2030, will have 30,000 homes, offices and light industry placed in an area where there is no pre-exisisting sewage, water, electric, fire or police infrastructure.

From the Tejon Ranch Company Website: "Tejon Ranch Company is committed to responsibly using its land and resources to meet the housing, employment and lifestyle needs of current and future generations of Californians, while being guided by the Ranch’s historic core values of conservation and good stewardship."

Highway 138 runs through the bottom third of the frame here. This area shown will have light, green industry on both sides of 138 when completed. The small two lane highway, also know as The Pearblossom highway is already heavily traveled. Expansion in the area has the originally small scale rural highway expanding to six lanes in the area around The Centennial site.

This view behind Quail Lake shows where the border of residential plots 1 and 2 will come to an abrupt halt. The intial contruction of plots 1 and 2 consisting of around 3000 single family homes each will be somewhat hidden from the 138 highway. Situated in a valley between Quail Lake and the front of the Tehachipi mountains the first two areas will resemble a small mountain enclave. But once the 7 other plots are developed they will make up a small city of 100,000 inhabitents almost 75 miles from downtown Los Angeles.

This view shows the end of the planned Centennial development. These areas are to be finished anywhere from 2020 to 2030. The planning has these homes to be smaller in scale than the intial ranch style homes to be built in areas 1 through 3. The brown area immediately seen will be overrun with single family homes.

The area in mid-summer. Tejon Ranch is arid and evelation is high (3500-4000 feet). Antelope and deer routinely graze in the area and are still hunted by mountain lions.

The view here shows what will be an Industrial Park that will run on both sides of Highway 138 for a distance of over three miles.

The view from West 300th Street. This is the eastern edge of Tejon Ranch. The entire photograph will have 30000 residential units on it by approximately 2030.