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Southwest resident Kevin Morrison moved from L.A. to Bakersfield two years ago to get away from the “big city.”Now it seems the big city may be catching up with him.In what city planners are calling the largest project in Bakersfield history, two developers — D.R. Horton and Flying Seven Ventures — have delivered proposals to add housing all the way west to Interstate 5 and almost as far south as Bear Mountain Boulevard. The two new projects, which city planners refer to as a single development over 11 square miles, would include homes, apartments, schools, shopping centers and parks and house about 70,000 people. One development would be built on dairy land owned by James Borba. Completion would take about two decades. The proposals were delivered only two months after the Kern County Local Agency Formation Commission allowed Bakersfield to add about 100 square miles to the city’s sphere of influence, territory city leaders are allowed to annex. ...
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