| While "urban sprawl" and "smart growth"
| |
| | development guidelines. This change led
|
| seem to be key phrases in the news these
| |
| | to a spurt in the population growth, with
|
| days-especially among politicians and
| |
| | the population edging to just under
|
| environmentalists, the truth is "smart
| |
| | 16,000 people by 1970, only three years
|
| growth" can only happen when there is a
| |
| | after the city officially changed its
|
| plan in place to grow. "Smart growth" is
| |
| | name to Cerritos (chosen because it was
|
| not a reaction to a housing boom. Neither
| |
| | located in close proximity to the
|
| is it a way to boost a city's economy as
| |
| | original land grant Rancho Los Cerritos).
|
| it begins to slide into a slump. Truly
| |
| | Seeing the potential problems with
|
| smart growth is a new city's plan to,
| |
| | continued population growth, Cerritos
|
| over years, accommodate more people and
| |
| | wanted to continue to grow in a
|
| businesses, without comprising its
| |
| | well-developed manner under a policy of
|
| natural resources or the quality of life
| |
| | continual environmental improvement. The
|
| for those who are already there. Despite
| |
| | standards and goals of the policy laid
|
| what many people are labeling as "smart
| |
| | out ways to achieve a park-like community
|
| growth" in an effort to pad their own
| |
| | and still allow for commercial,
|
| bank accounts or please their more
| |
| | industrial, and residential development.
|
| powerful constituents, smart growth can
| |
| | The first Cerritos General Plan was
|
| happen. And it has in the California city
| |
| | adopted in October of 1971, to provide
|
| of Cerritos.
| |
| | for a controlled urban development. The
|
| Cerritos is an unassuming city, less
| |
| | plan itself guaranteed convenient access
|
| attention-hungry than its bigger brothers
| |
| | to shopping near homes, locations for a
|
| Los Angeles and Hollywood. Nestled just
| |
| | multitude of services, attractive
|
| northeast of Long Beach and northwest of
| |
| | neighborhoods, and parks for recreation.
|
| Anaheim, the city of Cerritos isn't well
| |
| | A revised version of the General Plan was
|
| known. Most Americans wouldn't know that
| |
| | adopted in January of 2004.
|
| it's home to Cerritos College (the third
| |
| | So how did they do it? Approximately half
|
| largest Hispanic-serving community
| |
| | of the city's land is designated for
|
| colleges in the country), Isuzu Motors
| |
| | residential development. This didn't
|
| America, Inc.-well-known for its
| |
| | slow Cerritos down. From 1970 to 1972,
|
| top-of-the-line SUV "Ascender" and pickup
| |
| | Cerritos became California's fastest
|
| trucks, and United Postal Services (which
| |
| | growing city with a population increase
|
| employs approximately 5,000 people in
| |
| | from 15,800 to 37,700. But it wasn't
|
| Cerritos alone). California Business
| |
| | just the residential development that was
|
| Magazine named Cerritos one of the best
| |
| | being focused on.
|
| 100 Cities to do business in the state.
| |
| | Cerritos opened the first solar-heated
|
| Incorporated in 1956 as The City of Dairy
| |
| | City Hall complex in U.S. history in
|
| Valley, Cerritos' original name reflected
| |
| | 1978. The City developed the Cerritos
|
| the community's agricultural focus. At
| |
| | Auto Square in the early '80s, which now
|
| that time, dairy cattle outnumbered the
| |
| | generates $10 million+ in sales tax
|
| residents of the city nine to one as
| |
| | revenue annually. In 1997, Cerritos
|
| there were less than 5,000 people living
| |
| | opened a state-of-the-art Cerritos
|
| in the incorporated city. Cerritos
| |
| | Sheriff's Station/Community Safety Center
|
| received its charter to become a
| |
| | to the tune of $10 million to provide
|
| California city two years after its
| |
| | residents with public safety services
|
| incorporation, which marked the beginning
| |
| | 24-hours-a-day, 365 days a year. In March
|
| of its "smart growth."
| |
| | of 2002, the Cerritos Library was
|
| Approximately eight years later, rising
| |
| | dedicated-an 88,000-square-foot building
|
| property taxes and land prices began to
| |
| | featuring art collections, educational
|
| take their toll on dairy operations, and
| |
| | displays and beautiful conference center
|
| by the early 1960s the agricultural crux
| |
| | s. As anniversary gifts commemorating 50
|
| of Cerritos was beginning to falter. In
| |
| | years as a city, The Cerritos Sculpture
|
| March of 1965, the citizens decided, in a
| |
| | Garden and a fitness/wellness center at
|
| special election, to permit homes to be
| |
| | the Cerritos Senior Center were dedicated
|
| built under strict residential
| |
| | in 2006 to the community.
|
