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California Forever removes initiative from November Ballot
In the most stunning turn yet in its months-long saga for a new city in Solano County, California Forever abruptly removed the East Solano Plan from the 2024 General Election Ballot according to a …
The project, which would have turned thousands of acres of Solano County farmland into a new unincorporated community capped at a full buildout of 400,000 people, is backed by several Silicon Valley tech investors, including Reid Hoffman, Andreessen-Horowitz, Laurene Powell Jobs, and more. Forced into light by a New York Times story in late August, the company changed its name from Flannery Associates to California Forever, launching a “listening campaign” and sharing vague plans about the development of a city, bedecked with AI renderings of Mediterranean-style villas and dense urban centers. Throughout the whirlwind 10-month campaign, which included enticements like a man-made lagoon and a multi-million dollar sports complex for the new community, concrete details have remained sparser than typical of a housing project — even one approaching this scale.
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