In California, new university campuses spur development of rural areas

June 25, 2007
Higher-education sites seen as anchors for residential development.

The latest strategy in California to break up farmland for development has developers teaming up with colleges and universities, using them as potential anchors for massive new subdivisions. Three projects are in the early phases of the planning process. They are in areas that are not off-limits to future development, but they are not without controversy. Critics such as Graham Brownstein, executive director of the Environmental Council of Sacramento, said developers are using "Trojan horse universities" as a way to build more homes in the countryside.

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