Given that neither are motivated by guilt or threat of no desert, look for motivating factors that escalate compliance.

Standard of living is so much better elsewhere.I'll happily pay taxes and live here, in my much larger than 900 sq/ft house that I paid just over $200K for, (my master bath has so much floor to ceiling travertine, you'd think you were in a Vegas hotel - far cry from a shack) where I have a dozen palm trees on my 1/4 acre yard with a pond, 365 day a year vegetable & herb garden, 300+ days a year of not just sunshine, but clear skies and shorts/t-shirt & flip-flops weather, beaches, snow, mountains, desert, forests and resort living lifestyle, (not even to mention the absurd income opportunities) than get paid to live in Washington.

Something else we may see is a jump in low-income properties being built-kinda like what we saw in the Desert Valley (Victorville) before the crash.

the land boom from end of 1800s to mid 70s was huge.. think CA  millions of platted lots especially inland empire high desert.. same with AZ  NM   Texas.. and of course the mother of them all Florida.. some of this stuff never went anywhere this is were you see guys like landgeek and stuff troll tax sales and buy low sell on terms.. 

So instead the Desert Inn got demolished for a luxury property that won't be catering to Spring Breakers.Tons of cheap homes near the beaches right now that would be ripe for short-term rentals.

The amount of money you'd spend on resolving a parcel of lbuildable land in the middle of a downtown high rise area would more than the limited benefits sought from a small desert plot of land. 

Hi Justin,As a seasoned and accredited investor with a old RE and stock portfolio accumulated over a 40 year period I'm very comfortable staying in my own farm of the North San Diego Coastla, South OC and Sough Riverside area's including the Palm Desert/Palm Springs area. 

It would almost have to be a flash food like you see in the desert and even then it is not ever expected to rise to the level of the actual habitable part of the building, but at the least I am covered.

----------------------------------------------------------------------Boy, the only 4-plexes I remember in this 'area' that weren't HOA were out on the north side over By Desert Inn & Maryland. 

Do you want a dispute over a desert box with someone who pays you a few hundred dollars a month?