San Clemente becomes builders' paradise

Orange County Business Journal | April 17, 2000| | Copyright

Laing Forster Ranch LLC is developing land for 1,000 homes. That would be considered a major project in most OC cities.

But in San Clemente, it's not.

"If we were here by ourselves, we'd be looked at as a big builder," said Ken Nishikawa, a VP at Laing Forster. "Talega has over 4,000 homes. Marblehead has about 430 homes, but they have 60 acres of major commercial. We're just like the third wheel."

This is the same San Clemente that was a hotbed of the slow-growth movement in the 1980s, when it passed two initiatives to limit development. It's sometimes known as the Spanish village by the ...

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