LAKE FOREST

Construction of the city’s last planned housing development will be finished this month, developers said. The completion of the 42 large homes near Regency/Normandale Park will mark the end of more than 30 years of residential sprawl in Lake Forest, Community Development Director Kathy Graham said.

The city’s first housing development went up in the early 1960s near Interstate 5 in what was then farmland, Graham said.

Although residential areas in the city are now full, other areas are open for development. “By and large the remaining land that’s left undeveloped in the city is zoned for commercial and industrial development,” Graham said.

City staff will now focus more on bringing businesses and jobs into the city, she said.