martybegan
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It has been like that since the beginning. Just pushing out East. My college was surrounded by miles of concrete, but there was a mount (big hill vs. a mountain mountain ) which was primarily open. Can't building on them because of well they are mountains and landslides. We used to drive by inner city drive by country twenty minutes up to Mount Baldy.
The Palisades portion is where wealthy live. Those are probably $5MM+ to $50MM homes.
I think it's probably gone past the critical mass, via density increasing at the hard borders with the steeper mountain fronts.
LA has been controlling the debris flows as well for decades, but I wonder how next wet season is going to go.