"Billionaires Unveil Detailed Plan for New Urbanist Utopia in Solano County"

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"Billionaires Unveil Detailed Plan for New Urbanist Utopia in Solano County"
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In Solano County, California, a group of tech billionaires, including Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, and Laurene Powell Jobs, have spent $900 million on farmland to build a city of 400,000, causing upheaval among local farmers who have been approached by a company called Flannery Associates. The company's attempts to buy up farmland have sparked feuds and suspicions among the locals, who are skeptical about the idea of paving over ranches to address San Francisco's urban housing problems.

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