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Developers Sweeten Appeal for Placer County, Calif., Land Deal.
Byline: Mary Lynne Vellinga
Nov. 3--At the beginning of the 1990s, as a wave of growth washed over western Placer County, developer Angelo Tsakopoulos proposed building Placer Villages, a new city of 80,000 people on farm fields outside Roseville.
Around the same time, home-building giant Eli Broad proposed 8,000 new houses on a stretch of pasture near Highway 65 -- a westward extension of his successful Stanford Ranch community in nearby Rocklin.
Both men tried to get their projects included in Placer County's new general plan. Both came away with far less than they had sought.
Broad's plan for Placer Ranch West was rejected. His land, deemed too close to the county landfill for houses, was included in a planned industrial park. Broad then sued unsuccessfully to overturn the county's general plan.
Tsakopoulos' project was approved, but only after it was scaled back by more than 75 percent, to 5,158 acres, amid concerns about "leapfrog" development and the loss of agricultural land.
Today, both men are back before Placer County supervisors, seeking approval for thousands of houses on some of the same land. This time, however, they're dangling an appealing carrot: higher education.
Broad has recruited California State University, Sacramento, to…
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