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'California Forever' founder Jan Sramek unveils first renderings for utopian city near San Francisco and boasts it will feature better schools, safer streets, and less homelessness
UK Daily Mail ^ | 09/01/2023 | Keith

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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To: DFG

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.


41 posted on 09/01/2023 2:15:35 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Ken H
Doesn’t look very diverse.

That exactly what I was thinking. Nobody is twerking on top of a table in that picture!

42 posted on 09/01/2023 2:24:50 PM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: DFG

***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?


43 posted on 09/01/2023 2:50:28 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: DFG
Streetscapes are dominated by pedestrians and cyclists and no cars to be seen. While another drawing shows workers installing a solar energy panel.

They brought in the solar panels on donkeys.

44 posted on 09/01/2023 3:06:43 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Ken H
Doesn’t look very diverse.

You noticed that too.
LOL !

45 posted on 09/01/2023 3:14:35 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: DFG

That looks like a paint-by-numbers picture.


46 posted on 09/01/2023 3:18:06 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Faux News: "We distort, you deride")
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To: DFG

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.


47 posted on 09/01/2023 3:56:06 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: DFG

Suggested names:

1. Pelousyville

2. Nancyland

3.

4.


48 posted on 09/01/2023 3:59:22 PM PDT by Skybird
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To: Howie66
It looks like a scene out of a Twilight Zone tv show.

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."

49 posted on 09/01/2023 4:05:04 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Mariner

I am not sure. It is California. They may get slapped by some rule and be forced to made homeless camp downtown!


50 posted on 09/01/2023 4:06:03 PM PDT by AZJeep
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To: DFG

where are all the homeless, drug-users, drag queens and illegal aliens?

This guy is a MORON to build this in California!


51 posted on 09/01/2023 4:08:53 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: DFG

And very, very high taxes....


52 posted on 09/01/2023 4:10:25 PM PDT by TrumpisRight (It is --> President Trump <--)
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To: DFG

Go buy Vallejo CA for a lot less and do it there. Prove that you’re smart.


53 posted on 09/01/2023 4:26:01 PM PDT by samadams2000
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To: DFG

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..


54 posted on 09/01/2023 4:35:18 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Blueflag

“Gated, walled, patrolled.”

So was Khaddafi’s Tripoli bunker before he fled to a sewer pipe and the Libyan militia dragged him out.


55 posted on 09/01/2023 4:36:44 PM PDT by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: DFG

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?


56 posted on 09/01/2023 4:38:22 PM PDT by x
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To: DFG

Where will the landscapers, dishwashers, etc. live.

Like in makeshift hovels on the side of the highways leading to the Hamptons?


57 posted on 09/01/2023 4:40:15 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: alternatives?

They also left out the guy with 20 felony convictions including a few for murder that he is out on probation for.


58 posted on 09/01/2023 4:59:18 PM PDT by freefdny
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To: Mariner
Like many places in Norcal, they’ll just price out the riff raff and make it far enough away the junkies don’t try to get there.

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.

59 posted on 09/01/2023 5:09:18 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: Ken H

“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.


60 posted on 09/01/2023 5:41:42 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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