Corporations and fat cats always believe that they are entitled to take advantage of others and others are entitled to be taken advantage of. Anything else is unnatural and unAmerican! So sue 'em!
I suspect the buyer has connections to congress and we’ll all be paying for that land some day at a far higher price than it’s selling for today. Foreign interests are red herrings, probably planted by the buyer.
The times I’ve been through there on I-80, IIRC, I don’t recall that area being very windy.
As a Vallejo native, I can attest to plenty of wind in the hills between there and Fairfield. As you head east on 12 toward Rio Vista, you’ll see lots of wind turbines.
I was stationed at Travis and can confirm it’s a windy area. We had days where we were not allowed to open or close the cowl doors on the C-17 because they were light and strong winds would turn them into a sail, essentially. I remember closing the cowl doors one time in winds that were just under the speed where we were not allowed to close them and it was a little bit of a struggle to keep the door under control.
Maybe Disney is thinking of relocating out of Florida?
Thanks to the locals for verifying that it’s windy there!
Hmm. That is not as wacky as it sounds. The whole SF bay area as a local catchment, plus the air connections to everywhere from SFO & OAK?
Boy, that would please Ron DeSanctimonious and stick it to him at the same time. Win-win.
So it seems these land purchases are because a company called Flannery Associates wants to build a new city. They’ve spent more than $800 million on land purchases and are backed by some big Silicon Valley names like Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon. Gift link to a New York Times article about this.
A likely story! Why can’t they create a city the normal way? Just wait a few turns until you have a settler unit and find a good spot.
That would be too, ah … Civilized…
This seems to be confusing a lot of people.
Oh my god, another “Utopian City”… I used to be a libertarian, and there were so many people with plans for a town/commune/city/abandoned oil rig platform, free from “all those repressive laws” (that keep society together…).
I guess NorCal deserves its own California City.
Maybe someone is finally building a city on rock and roll.
Been done.
From the article cited in that post:
The poll said the project would be a “new city with tens of thousands of new homes, a large solar energy farm, orchards with over a million new trees, and over ten thousand acres of new parks and open space”
but also:
dry, inhospitable farmland
So where, as it’s becoming clearer and clearer that we’re running into a national fresh water shortage, are they expecting to get the water for all of those homes, orchards, and parks?
(Yes, I know many forms of agriculture use a lot of water. But they appear to be describing land that currently doesn’t.)
Yes, we need more housing. But that reads like a terrible place to put it.
It’s been decades since I’ve been out that way. I hope they didn’t buy the hill with the cows on it. That things picturesque and filling it with houses would be a shame.