Posted on 09/01/2023 1:05:26 PM PDT by DFG
The tech billionaires behind a project to build a utopian new city in California's Bay Area have released the first artistic renderings of their ambitious plans.
Previously known only as 'Flannery Associates,' the group rebranded as 'California Forever' and released the plans in a publicity blitz on Thursday night, following months of silence and speculation.
Led by former Goldman Sachs trader Jan Sramek, the group's backers include Silicon Valley heavyweights such as LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Andreessen Horowitz investor Marc Andreessen, and Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs.
California Forever is now the largest landowner in Solano County, which is about 60 miles northeast of San Francisco, after snapping up more than 50,000 acres of farmland for more than $800 million.
The group's voracious acquisition of land surrounding Travis Air Force Base had sparked national security concerns and a federal investigation, until their true identity and intent was revealed earlier this week.
On their newly published website, California Forever offered the first renderings of its plans to turn the arid, hilly farming region into an ideal planned community.
The drawings show Mediterranean-style homes clustered on hillsides and shorelines, with wind farms dotting the background.
Streetscapes are dominated by pedestrians and cyclists, with outdoor cafes filling the town square and no cars to be seen.
In one drawing, kayakers paddle in a nature preserve, while another shows workers installing a solar energy panel.
In a statement, the group acknowledge that its silence as it mysteriously snapped up land had 'understandably, created interest, concern, and speculation.'
'Now that we're no longer limited by confidentiality, we are eager to begin a conversation about the future of Solano County,' the group added, saying the area 'faces many challenges - but also presents countless opportunities.'
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Yea, they won’t let the homeless and illegatl immigrants in, and they’ll stll consider themselves “Liberals”.
THE ONLY way their utopian plan will work and come anywhere near their hopes is if the whole entire “city” is actually a private corportion, and incorporated as such. “Buying” property will be more like buying a 99 year lease from the corporation that will actually own all the land. The “police” will work for that corporation and impose the rules made by the corporation. They’ll try to find someway to have resident representatives on the board of the private company but will not do so to an extent that the corporation will lose control.
That exactly what I was thinking. Nobody is twerking on top of a table in that picture!
***better schools, safer streets, and less homelessness***
So, what are they going to do to keep the rif-raf out? Build a wall? Armed guards on the gates? ID checks before entry or leaving?
They brought in the solar panels on donkeys.
You noticed that too.
LOL !
That looks like a paint-by-numbers picture.
Years ago, when the awful stories began coming out about the homeless encampments, I postulated that someone was deliberately allowing this to happen in order to bring down property values in SF. Looks like I was right.
Suggested names:
1. Pelousyville
2. Nancyland
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Sure does. A bunch of creepy people. I can't imagine a real community with them, given their amorality & hyper-individualism. They have no shared culture or ideology. They'll be excruciatingly polite, though, to each other -- as long as their worldview isn't challenged.
This is the reason why liberal-fueled utopias always failed. To quote Orwell: "The problem with an ideology isn't its system of thought but the people it attracts."
I am not sure. It is California. They may get slapped by some rule and be forced to made homeless camp downtown!
where are all the homeless, drug-users, drag queens and illegal aliens?
This guy is a MORON to build this in California!
And very, very high taxes....
Go buy Vallejo CA for a lot less and do it there. Prove that you’re smart.
If it is a City wouldn’t it need to follow the same laws as San Francisco which is causing all the issues? So it must be private where it can exclude undesirables..... (hold on I’m laughing so hard at the thought of Libs excluding anyone...) and control everything. I have always thought this was about water rights, after all they purchased farms. So I guess we shall see..
“Gated, walled, patrolled.”
So was Khaddafi’s Tripoli bunker before he fled to a sewer pipe and the Libyan militia dragged him out.
1) Isn’t this in a flood plain or something?
2) Isn’t California finally tired of asphalting farm land and open spaces?
3) How about fixing up the places that are going to hell?
Where will the landscapers, dishwashers, etc. live.
Like in makeshift hovels on the side of the highways leading to the Hamptons?
They also left out the guy with 20 felony convictions including a few for murder that he is out on probation for.
Kinda like Coronado, across the San Diego Bay, which boasts of having the fewest homeless people of any city in California.
Well, yeah, that's because the bums would have to either walk across the Coronado bay Bridge or several miles across the Silver Strand to get there. And when they did, they'd be arrested for loitering.
Coronado residents in their multi-million dollar homes aren't messing around with street crime.
“Doesn’t look very diverse.”
Yep, my first thought too. The idea of a ‘safe city’ means diversity is not permitted (think Tokyo, or Osaka) - so will this be ‘tolerated’ by the Leftists running government there? Answer: Of course, as long as the price of admission is high enough to keep them safe from the policies they otherwise enact on everyone else.
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