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These several visits to the Newhall property made clear the following
facts:

1. The land is admirably suited to a planned community de-
velopment. Drainage is good and the terrain is level or
gently rolling.

2. Adequate utilities and water are available to serve the po-
tential development. Water is not in abundant supply, but
it appears that the Company has developed enough water
resources to support an integrated community of about
50, 000 people.

3. Good highway and rail facilities connect the Newhall proper-
ties with Los Angeles and the other major metropolitan
centers of the West.

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4. The unincorporated towns of Newhall and Saugus, adjacent
to the Newhall Land and Farming Company property, can
be considered in the main as areas of residential blight.
Inadequate zoning restrictions, water supply, and sewage
disposal facilities, supply of undeveloped land, and indus-
trial base have retarded the orderly growth of the towns
and, to an extent, have caused the poor housing conditions
that exist there today.

5. The present labor market in the Newhall, Saugus, Castaic
Junction area is limited.

6. About 200 additional jobs will become available in the area
with the completion of three facilities now under construction:
the Los Angeles Police Department Farm for alcoholics, the
Texas Company's gasoline plant, and the Thatcher Glass
Plant.

7 . There is only one new residential housing development in
the area, the Bonelli Tract. It has been successful. The 55
homes in this subdivision are of good quality and well main-
tained.

As a part of its field work, Stanford Research Institute personnel
contacted several local businessmen to get pertinent data on the current
economic status of the area. These data arid the above listed facts form
the basic framework within which the study was carried out.

In later stages of the project, area development in Los Angeles and
Orange Counties, particularly in the San Fernando Valley, was studied
in subsequent field work.

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