Billionaire-Backed City Gets Slick ‘California Forever’ Website
- Utopian project in Solano County cites John Doerr as a backer
- In illustrations, project resembles idyllic Mediterranean city
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A plan to build a utopian urban oasis in the windswept hills of Northern California’s Solano County now has a splashy website, which aims to tout the controversial project’s benefits and win over wary locals.
The site describes the proposed development — called California Forever — as a walkable community that will help solve “regional infrastructure needs, including energy, transportation, water and wildfire protection.” The website features painted images — resplendent in pastels and presumably depicting the planned city — that evoke Italy’s Tuscan countryside, albeit with wind turbines in the background.