A group of Silicon Valley investors is behind the purchase of some 60,000 acres of farmland, as part of an ambitious plan to build a brand-new walkable city in the nation's most car-centric state. But will voters approve?
Starting back in 2017, something mysterious was going on just 90 minutes northeast of San Francisco: a secretive group was purchasing farmland – lots of it, some 60,000 acres – in rural Solano County. Many feared it might be a Chinese government plot to try to set up shop near Travis Air Force Base.But as The New York Times' Conor Dougherty found out, the truth was even stranger than the rumors.
California Forever says new Solano city plan has enough signatures for November ballotLocals Al Medvitz and Jeannie McCormack are two of the last holdouts here. Most of their neighbors have sold to California Forever , but they've turned down millions to keep farming the 3,700-acre ranch that has been in Jeannie's family for more than a century.
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