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The Urbanist Case for a New Community in Solano County


New walkable city planned in California | CNU

The low-rise, compact development could provide a model for some of the housing built in Solano County, if California Forever gains approval. It ...

Evaluating the Case for the East Solano Plan

Under current trends explored in this report, Solano County will continue to struggle with escalating home prices, limited wage growth to pay for those homes, ...

The scrappy resistance looking to block Big Tech's urbanist utopia

Solano is a tough place for utopian visionaries. Although the 400,000-person county has outpaced the state in producing new homes, it has a ...

Billionaire backers of new Solano County city reveal map and ...

The plan calls for $400 million to help Solano County residents and air force base families buy homes in the proposed community, among other ...

EXCLUSIVE: New renderings show plans for new Solano County city

Officials behind a new city proposed for Solano County shared new renderings of what the community would look like, including residential ...

Silicon Valley Investors' Plans for a New City Put on Hold

The East Solano Plan, a proposal for a walkable urban community in a ... Solano County has a longstanding “orderly growth” ordinance ...

Silicon Valley investors reveal proposal for a new city in Solano ...

Silicon Valley investors have revealed aspirational illustrations for the $800 million proposal for a new city in eastern Solano County.

California Forever: Analyzing billionaire promises for new city

Up to $400 million in down-payment assistance to help Solano County residents buy homes in the new community and new affordable housing; Up ...

CA Forever has 'plan B' if it can't build a new city in Solano County

Despite lousy polling numbers and near unanimous opposition from Solano County's political establishment, California Forever CEO Jan Sramek ...

Billionaires want to build a new city in rural California. They must ...

But to build anything resembling a city on what is now farmland, the group must first convince Solano County voters to approve a ballot ...

California Forever promises new Solano County investments ...

SOLANO COUNTY — Tech billionaires have made national headlines this year for their push to build a new city on Solano County farmland that ...

Solano County - CP&DR

The proposed Solano County new town got more publicity than any planning story in recent memory -- despite being barely a proposal.

Billionaires want to build a new city in Solano County. Here's what ...

If you drive around Solano County, as I imagine the Flannery investors did, you pass by our towns and see an incredible amount of open space.

The Case For and Against California Forever - The New Urban Order

Yes, California Forever is building on a greenfield, in an area of very limited water resources and a not-zero wildfire risk. But thousands of ...

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

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 ...

'California Forever' Billionaire Group Begins Ballot Initiative Effort to ...

However misguided it may be, the proposal to build a new city out of whole cloth on some agricultural land in Solano County, east of Vallejo ...

The strange hypocrisy of the 'just build housing' YIMBYs

California Forever made the “urbanist case” for its project, arguing that the project “offers a model for how to create new communities that ...

New details for California Forever development in Solano County

... building a community on what's now mostly farmland. His California Forever company needs approval from Solano County voters in November to ...

A tour of Solano County land purchased by California Forever - KCRA

The group, which is the parent company of Flannery Associates, said it wants to build a new community on part of that land that would include ...

Evaluating the Case for the East Solano Plan

The East Solano Plan seeks to create a new, mixed-use community at the heart of the. Northern California Megaregion with homes, businesses, and civic uses ...