After nixing a plan to build a new city from whole cloth in Solano County, the tech industry leaders behind California Forever want to build their community as an expansion of Suisun City.
The tech industry funders behind California Forever, the “utopian” plan for a brand new city in Northern California, are back with a new proposal: rather than building a new city, they now want to build a community that would expand on Suisun City, reports J.K. Dineen in the San Francisco Chronicle.
“By making the city ‘part of the Suisun Expansion Project’ California Forever can avoid the approval of Solano voters required by the county’s organized growth initiative, which requires that any urban development in unincorporated parts of the county be approved by ballot initiative. Instead, it will require approval of the Suisun City Council and the Solano Local Agency Formation Commission, known as LAFCO,” Dineen explains.
California Forever founder and CEO Jan Sramek says the Suisun City expansion would include 175,000 homes over the next 40 years and create jobs and an entertainment, not just a “bedroom community.”
Read the full story: California Forever’s latest plan to build the ‘next great American city’: Expand existing towns
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