During my many years driving across California's Interstate, I have personally passed through the vast Tejon Ranch (TRC) property on many occasions and have wondered, "Why does nobody live here?" In fact, the massive 270,000-acre property (the largest piece of private property in California) has almost no residential development despite the extreme urban congestion just 20 miles to the south in Los Angeles as shown below.
In the past, the lack of commercial and residential development in the area made sense. Los Angeles still had room for development and was not in its