Oneida, Amana, Shekina.......... All communist utopias. All gone.
And it’ll have to be one giant gated community. It will be a utopia, for the rich. All while the rest of the State gets poorer and more and more end up homeless.
Reminds me of the movie “Freejack”, where the only difference, for now, is the inability to steal somebody else’s body to live forever...but you know they’d justify it if they could.
Water may not be an issue. It’s productive ag land now and all but the most dense residential development uses less water per acre - this project likely reduces overall water demand.
The biggest challenge is to manage affordable housing mandates. Politicians will demand at least 30% of the housing units be affordable. This will work fine if they can satisfy that requirement with “workforce” housing and housing for teachers, cops and firefighters. If anything more than a very small fraction needs to be importing of the welfare underclass, a disaster, particularly for the schools.
Second largest challenge will be to manage air pollution mandates. Given both California political predilections, and the real tendency of the valley to smog up, the project will need to be very close to zero emissions. No natural gas, nearly all ZEV vehicles (i.e., prohibition on parking gas or diesel cars), and likely most or all of the grid needing to be solar or wind-powered.
Third is figuring out how to gate the community. Pretty straightforward to have gated HOAs. Less straightforward to make gated private retail villages that can admit those you want to admit while keeping out the rif-raff.
" 'This is not a plan!' I declared with a laugh. 'It's just a bunch of buttons with labels on them.' 'But it's all here,' Angus insisted. 'I've thought of everything—Start, Stop, Land, Take-off, Dodge Asteroids, you name it, everything you need to know.” He even had an all-purpose button to take care of anything unexpected, which he thought was a genius innovation'."
In The Dark Side of Paradise: A Brief History of America's Utopian Experiments in Communal Living
"...utopian seekers hoped to create their perfect society by building experimental communities. Most of the communes had short lifespans, and the utopians performed their experiments in isolation from the rest of society, yet they all expressed the deep desire of perfectionism."
Led by "moguls," as the Daily Mail article says, means this is another real estate, developer "green" scam, aimed not at utopia but at profit. The "rube" will be expected to inhabit it, and obey HOA-like restrictions. Think those "moguls" will live in the little homes and walk to fetch their groceries? B-wa-ha-ha!
OK, so can expect no steel will be used, no aluminum, nothing needing mined. No petro fuel is used in the making, etc??
Of course, not. “Green” is a childish fantasy by little kids who know nothing and think food comes from grocery stores and not farms and ranches.
They need to make sure they are “diverse”—no Whitopia allowed!
I wouldn’t want to live in a planned community especially one built by elite billionaires. Just imagine all the restrictive rules.
Where I live if I want to stick a rifle out the window to shoot a coyote I can do it. I betcha guns of any sort will not be allowed in this place.
Didn’t the hippies try this several times?
The picture shows all elites, no workers.
Another San Francisco six months after it opens it’s California things don’t change for the better there.
So is this a gated private city?
No surprise splinter Religious groups have been trying this in the USA since before there was a USA. The Climate Cult is just the latest religious group to try it
Utopias in America
https://www.nps.gov/articles/utopias-in-america.htm#:~:text=The%20First%20Amendment‘s%20guarantee%20of,agrarian%2C%20and%20communal%20in%20nature.
Will it be a sanctuary city, and how are they going to deal with the sewage treatment facilities?
I don’t see much diversity.