But they used to be. Look around and you'll see the evolution of shopping habits and how developers have strived to meet them. The strip malls of the 1970s gave way to enclosed malls. Now that Main Streets are in, Newhall Land is developing Town Center Drive that way. Tomorrow's city is a conglomeration of homes around a centralized neighborhood shopping center.
Nobody really knows.
The projections of traffic into the city of Santa Clarita from Newhall Ranch seem silly. You might as well throw a dart at a Ouija board. The one certainty is that people will get in their cars less than they do today. I'd love to be there if Victor Gruen could come back to see Valencia. Gruen, Valencia's original 1950s architect, envisioned a city where people lived in skyscrapers perched on ridgelines while the valleys below were left untouched.