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In Shock Move, California Forever Pulls Measure To Build Bay Area City

An anonymous reader quotes a report from SFGate: A group of tech billionaires and millionaires has pulled its ballot measure that aimed to build a utopian city in Solano County. Instead, the group will go back to the drawing board the old-fashioned way by submitting an application to the county. The...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from SFGate: A group of tech billionaires and millionaires has pulled its ballot measure that aimed to build a utopian city in Solano County. It recently received the requisite number of signatures to put its East Solano Plan on the November ballot; that measure, if passed, would have removed some zoning restrictions that prevent this type of development in the area. When the plan to build a futuristic city was announced, California Forever faced widespread pushback, ranging from concerns about billionaire backers like Reid Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs to questions about the impacts on traffic, water usage and proximity to Travis Air Force Base.

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