Homes at Tejon Ranch will have electric heat pumps and induction stoves. But what about all those car trips?
. As part of that agreement, Tejon Ranch pledged there will be no gas hookups in homes at Centennial, or at a separate residential development it plans to build in Kern County.
For a long time, the criticism of electric appliances was that they cost more than gas, and could raise housing prices in a state that’s already way too expensive. But the technology is getting cheaper — and not installing gas lines can save money too. That’s one of the main reasons some climate activists oppose Centennial. They say as much as California needs more housing, the only sustainable solution to the state’s housing crisis is density: building more apartments and other residences in areas that are already well populated and well served by public transit. That way people canAn Expo Line train runs past the construction site of a 30-story residential tower at Jefferson and La Cienega boulevards in Los Angeles.
“We’re very interested in developing policies that change that calculus for the development industry,” Lindblad said. So with half a million tons of carbon to deal with, how does Tejon Ranch plan to achieve net-zero emissions?
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