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When Was the Last Time We Built a New City?
California Forever wants to build a new city in Solano county. On paper, it would be an affordable, high-density urbanist wonderland — but can they actually pull it off?
In August 2023, California Forever, a corporation founded by Jan Sramek, announced plans to build a new city of up to 400,000 people in Solano County, forty miles northeast of San Francisco. J: It’s been about simpler zoning codes that are not 2,000 pages long, genuinely mixed-use development, transit and dedicated bike lanes, no parking minimums, very limited design standards. If you need to change zoning, to fight against a multitude of agencies and stakeholders to override a process about, for example, how streets are designed, and you’re only building a few hundred homes, you just won’t have the money to do it.
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