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Old Posted Jun 26, 2009, 6:29 PM
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Originally Posted by 202_Cyclist View Post
Stepper77- The point of the UC Merced campus, from what I've read in a column in the Sacramento Bee several years ago, was largely to encourage more development of single-family homes in the Valley. The column portrayed this campus largely as a gift to developers (much as UC Irvine encouraged the development of surrounding communities in the 1960s). Fresno, which as a large, underserved population, would have been a much better choice for a new UC campus.
Fresno already has Fresno St.
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