Talk:Rio Vista, California

Empty subdivision?
What's with the monument to failure on the edge of the town? Heywood J2 (talk) 21:22, 14 July 2010 (UTC) An ill-fated attempt at expansion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.149.55.57 (talk) 18:46, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It's the 'Liberty subdivision', which includes 13 abandoned model homes, roads, and other improvements just north & outside Rio Vista. The project began around 2005 with the city’s approval of a tentative map that allowed for the subdividing of the property locally known as Gibbs Ranch. The final maps were approved in 2006 and in March 2007, Shea Homes Limited Partnership received building permits for model construction. But then the housing market began to soften and by late 2007, the project was put on hold. When Shea Homes pulled the plug on the project it left behind a virtual ghost town, complete with improvements such as sewer, water, roads, curbs, gutters and sidewalks, and street lamps, and the workers involved in the project lost their jobs. An ornate roundabout at the subdivision entryway sits alone and utility wires still jut from each lot. Missing copper wiring that thieves stripped from the lights, damaged street signs and various other vandalism issues have effected the area over the years. City police and occasionally the county sheriff’s deputy patrol the area with the aid of a mobile surveillance system set up by Shea Homes after the models were built. Shea Homes is not actively looking to sell the project, saying, “we couldn’t sell it for what we wanted to get out of it.” The city has not yet accepted, or signed off on, most of the developer’s improvements, which needed to be OK’d by the city before it took control from the developer. The result is that most of the area’s maintenance is currently still the burden of Shea Homes.
 * (Above information taken from the Daily Republic newspaper, Jan. 25, 2014, a report by Susan Winlow )  UnderEducatedGeezer (talk) 02:53, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
 * This is 2024, nearly 14 years since the 2010 census was taken.
 * Our City Limits Sign says we have 10,342 populayion. 2601:640:C901:98E0:702C:152C:5E2A:B92A (talk) 09:34, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Footnote 5
This link does not work anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.135.172.108 (talk) 05:08, 15 July 2012 (UTC)