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The former Fresno Municipal Sanitary Landfill is located about 3 miles (4.8 km) from downtown Fresno, on 140 acres (57 ha) of land at the southwest corner of South West Avenue and West Jensen Avenue. The landfill is a basically rectangular mound, about 4,200 feet (1,300 m) long and 1,250 feet (380 m) wide.
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The five-member elected Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) is the county legislature. The board operates in a legislative, executive, and quasi-judicial capacity. As a legislative authority, it can pass ordinances for the unincorporated areas (ordinances that affect the whole county, like posting of restaurant ratings, must be ratified by the individual city).
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Fresno is the larger principal city of the Fresno-Madera CSA, a Combined Statistical Area that includes the Fresno (Fresno County) and Madera (Madera County) metropolitan areas, [60] [61] which had a combined population of 922,516 at the 2000 census. [10] Fresno is home to numerous ethnic minority communities, such as the Armenian and Hmong ...
Fresno’s 1,850 miles of streets, extended end-to-end, would reach Chicago. Fixing city streets has overloaded the city’s maintenance budget by $500 million. Why potholes are overrunning Fresno ...
Most small cities have a council–manager government, where the elected city council appoints a city manager to supervise the operations of the city. Some larger cities have a mayor–council government, with a directly-elected mayor who oversees the city government. In many council–manager cities, the city council selects one of its members ...
The Bee’s senior editor weighs in on the importance of Fresno’s downtown and plans for exclusive coverage Fresno has once-in-a-lifetime chance to redevelop downtown. City leaders must get it right