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Article: Developers Sweeten Appeal for Placer County, Calif., Land Deal.

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November 3, 2003
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By Mary Lynne Vellinga, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

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.

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