In Solano County, battle lines are forming in a campaign over a referendum that would clear the way for California Forever, the utopian village a bunch of Silicon Valley billionaires want to build in the eastern half of the county.

The ballot question in November 2024 will either validate the vision of a former Goldman Sachs trader and several of his really rich friends or it will deliver a rapidly forming backlash to a scheme that involved the stealth acquisition for $800M of more than 50,000 acres of eastern Solano County in the past five years.

California Forever envisions a new city on the outskirts of Travis Air Force Base in a hilly rural area halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento.

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