Enough housing units are now on the development playing board to turn Manteca into a city of 105,000 residents if they are all built. 

   And nowhere will the transformation of the landscape from open fields, almond orchards, and vineyards to housing tracts and apartments be greater than south of  the 120 Bypass where 8,274 housing units - or 8.5 of every 10 proposed new homes and apartments - are targeted to be built. Altogether 9,779 future homes are in play with the potential of adding 29,337 residents to Manteca that is expected to reach a population of 75,000 people later this year.
   While it doesn't mean the homes will all be built, given that they represent significant upfront money on the part of developers it significantly increasing the odds of the "paper lots" being turned into homes.
   But perhaps the biggest two factors that will likely mean most of the proposed homes will be built is the continued growing Bay Area economy that is married with a growing shortage of housing as well as it can take five years under California's exhaustive environmental  review process to go from conception to lots ready to build.
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