Where in California, needs a new major city?

[Robert Stark]

along the I-5 half way btwn LA and SF, and another in the far north.

[NaptownBoy]

Where in California needs a new major city? I'll tell you where: with 36 million people and four major metros, NOwhere.

[SDfan]

I agree, its hard enough for Sacramento and San Diego to come through the LA-SF image of the state...

[pdxheel]

Cali doesn't need a new major city, but if it does get one it will probably be a city like Merced.

[Robert Stark]

Well maybe some mid size cities around 100k along the I-5, and the N. coast.

[samsonyuen]

There's nothing near the Oregon border. If anything, maybe in the far north.

[SDfan]

Maybe inbetween LA and SD?

[LANative]

^Thats Anaheim. I think the real question should be, what city in California would be the next new major city.

[mr_storms]

Originally Posted by samsonyuen

There's nothing near the Oregon border. If anything, maybe in the far north.

Actually agreed here. Most of California north of tahoe is pretty much forgotten.

[guatemalanking]

Up north theres Redding and Chico with populations close to 100k, in the whole state we have more than 40 cities with a population over 100k, I would like a city near the Arizona border, Blythe only has 22,000 people would be nice to see some there.

[alex3000]

We need a big city in central California. Because Sacramento and SFO are right next to each other, same with LA and SD.

[612bv3]

California doesn't need another major city.

We already have:
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose
San Diego
Sacramento
Fresno

Do we really need another one? Most people from the north would be against creating a major city there. Isn't that the reason why they're living there. To get a way from the major cities.

[LANative]

Seriously California doesn't need another major city, we have plenty already.

[mongozx]

The Calexico-Mexicali (Imperial County) border area may grow into a big metropolis once the other major metros are too large.

[xzmattzx]

what would you need this big city for?

[edsg25]

I'd build a new city half way between SF and LA on the coast. It would have approximately 120,000 people. It would be college town, the ultimate California college town. That's because it would offer something that California does not have but so much of the US does: a flagship public university in a smaller, non-urban area. In other words, an Ann Arbor, a Chapel Hill, a Charlottesvile, a Boulder.....not the more urban settings of Berkeley or Westwood. Residential by nature, it would create its own academic world like no other city in state.

This town would be home to the new flagship campus of California State University. It would still be named CSU @ ____, but like Berkeley being Cal, it would be allowed to call itself Cal State.

The university would be the one most representative of California as a whole; with its central location, it would be more state-wide than the Bay Area's Cal or Metro LA's UCLA.

With land around it more open than other major California universities, this institution would have extensive room to be surounded by research institutions that will do for the central coast what Stanford did for Silicon Valley. Research will fuel the economy of the city.

This major institiution, though part of CSU, would be as competitive and research oriented as the UC's, a peer institution to Cal and UCLA. It would be the largest university in state (40,000) and would have Pac Ten membership with athletic teams that relate to the whole state: the Golden Condors. One of the university's goals would be to serve as a unifier for our largest and most diverse state; hopefully its teams will be treated as "local" by the likes of the LA Times and SF Chron; that's part of being state wide in a way that would explain why Cal and Stanford are not "local" to the LA Times and UCLA and SC are not "local" to the SF CHronicle.

Arhitectural buffs will love the University and the surrounding with a style that best could be described as contemporary California Spanish...an update the architecture that San Diego introduced to the state during the early years of the 20th century. Sleek and modern, it would still offer its own version of red tile roofs and fountain filled courtyards.

The name of the city? If the University of Iowa can be located in Iowa City, why can't the flagship for California State University be located in California City (CaliCity)

[LANative]

Theres already a California City in Southern CA out in the desert in Riverside County.

[dewback]

In other words, a suburb/college town?

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by LANative

Theres already a California City in Southern CA out in the desert in Riverside County.

Californe

and, Dewback,not suburanat all..more like Ann Arbor, Chapel Hill, etc.

[bagel]

Originally Posted by edsg25

I'd build a new city half way between SF and LA on the coast. It would have approximately 120,000 people. It would be college town, the ultimate California college town. That's because it would offer something that California does not have but so much of the US does: a flagship public university in a smaller, non-urban area. In other words, an Ann Arbor, a Chapel Hill, a Charlottesvile, a Boulder.....not the more urban settings of Berkeley or Westwood. Residential by nature, it would create its own academic world like no other city in state.

Only place I could think of that can approximate what you're looking for and where would be San Luis Obispo. Oh and there's a CSU there now... Looks like your groundwork exists. Now all you'll need is population and more CSU funding.