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When Was the Last Time We Built a New City?—Asterisk

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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. Beginning in 2017, the company, funded by some of the deepest pockets in Silicon Valley, purchased 50,000 acres of land for an estimated $900 million. Most of the land is zoned for agricultural use and is subject to slow-growth laws. A proposed ballot initiative to change that will be voted on in November. If it passes, California Forever would be the largest and most ambitious new development built in the state for over 50 years. Asterisk: I live in the Bay Area. I’m thinking of buying a house in the near future, but it costs a lot of money and this really stresses me out. In other words, I'm your ideal customer. So pitch me. Why

When Was the Last Time We Built a New City?—Asterisk 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. Beginning in 2017, the company, funded by some of the deepest pockets in Silicon Valley, purchased 50,000 acres of land for an estimated $900 million. Most of the land is zoned for agric

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