User:Teyashe/California City

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aggressively marketed. Developers pitched the city as an alternative to Los Angeles, which the developers argued could not handle the post-war population boom and needed other communities to share the increase. Instead of being built piecemeal, the whole City would be developed simultaneously. The city was designed to be a planned community. ... aquifer. The city was originally designed to hold 400,000 people, with a downtown center capable of holding 80,000-100,000 people and satellite suburbs housing the rest.

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the developer's projection,   and by 1969 only about 1,300 people lived in the city.

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In 2015 it was reported that California City's water usage had exceeded expectations, increasing by 28% in May of that year. The rapidly increasing water usage was blamed on aging pipes beneath undeveloped portions of the city, faulty pumps reporting exaggerated figures, and the presence of the California City Correctional Facility.

In June of 2016, California City became the first city of Kern County, California, to allow commercial cannabis cultivation. The city anticipated over $10 million a year in tax revenue from the new policy. In the first quarter of 2023, the city made around $98,000 in Cannabis-related revenues.