For context, Napa did exactly this: replaced farms with housing, only for the housing to be unaffordable for the low income and only the ultra rich to afford.
Huge issue with this project is the fact California Forever is expecting tax dollars to fund much of the infrastructure projects for this development. This will lead to higher taxes for Californians, theres no way around that. They say they will pay "their fair share", I bet that isn't even half the total cost, let alone anything close to the lifetime cost to maintain this new infrastucture. All of that maintainance will be a huge expense and eventually require replacing. All to be paid for with Californians (and by extension Solano County residents) tax dollars, diverting funds from other local projects and existing comunities. IF they were to pay for MOST of the infrastucture improvments and MAINTAINANCE COSTS for a period of years it would be a welcome project, but they are not as thats not as profitable. Jan and California Forever are effectively asking us to subsadize their city of million dollar homes none of us can afford , all while making them huge profits at our expense.
How is California Forever acting in good faith and acceptable morals when it tries and is trying to sue people and family’s for NOT wanting to sell their land and keep it for future generations? What I’m not hearing in this biased and dishonest report is the California Forever group is bring lawsuits to the farmers who simply don’t want to sell. Of course the greedy state allows this under the false application of business fixing prices. But these are farmers selling food, the farmers are not fixing prices on food. So how does this apply. This evil vile group is saying the farmers are fixing the selling price. How when the farmers don’t want to sell. So the state government wants and is allowing the law suits to be heard and willing to entertain such thievery. This will set a president, leave your family your property and the elites will accuse you of fixing price and rob you children of your home/property/assets. This is the elites taking over and abusing the laws. This also shows the California state govt being greedy and want some of the taxes.
How many people in that audience live in Solano County !?!?! Solano already has half a million people! Now you want to build homes for more commuters, that start at close to amillion dollars! No jobs to go with the people! So just adding to the congestion and commuters already on the road. Now Solano is expected to foot the bill for more roads that already can’t handle the traffic it has!! California is about to cut 75% water usage . Where is the water going to come from? An already strained water utility! The Delta? Yeah, that water cut is about saving the planet. You build a a desalination plant out there… I’m sure we will foot the bill for that as well. Never mind the damage it will do to the Delta. Go buy up the dirt between here and the Train to No Where that wasted how much money and they we alllll still pay for. 🤦🏽♀️ You want to fix what’s wrong with California! MAKE IT AFFORDABLE TO LIVE HERE!!
You should try visiting Asia. Half a million people is just a small village compared to an Asian city. Build more transit such as rail, young people are not driving as much as they use to. Make transit workable and safe. Water could be drilled or build a desalination plant. Every young person deserves an affordable home. Or would you rather have the majority of our young people move to Panama, Mexico, and Thailand? People are frustrated, we need drastic projects like this to make the Bay Area workable for everyone. Supply and demand, if you understand that basic part of economics.
@@erictaylor3897 🤣 Or California could make it Affordable to live in the cities they already have. You know, not screw up someone else’s county and build more.. Destroy the Delta… Desalinate more ocean… The bulk of California’s water goes to Los Angeles! Do some homework on where they get their water! They just cram more people into THE SAME SPACE. How is that HELPFUL? Million Dollar homes is NOT AFFORDABLE! How about we not screw up what little agricultural land we have and create more water issues in a county that already has water issues! Asian is a prime example of over population! CRAMMING TOO MANY PEOPLE INTO TOO SMALL OF A SPACE! People are not going to stop having kids. 🤦🏽♀️ Turn all the empty houses and building into affordable housing! California could have been building more water storage all this time… instead of a useless train to no where… California could have been building Desalinization plants all this time too. California could have been making it more affordable to live for a long time. Now , a bunch of idiots want to cram more people in an already burdened county … into UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING ! WITHOUT THE INCOME TO SUPPORT IT! Bringing in another 400,000 people BUT NOT 400,000 jobs!! BASIC economics! You’re right! We will be like Asia.. too many people for too small of a space. Not enough jobs to support what we have… 🤦🏽♀️
This is hard to watch. LIES As a Vacaville native, the thing people who live here have hated the most over the years is the increase in population, traffic, air pollution, and an oversaturation of resources(water, electricity, medical, recreational, residential etc,) We have also suffered a huge influx of corporate investors who have bought up a lot of homes where families could not compete, and who in large part caused this housing crisis we are in. The middle class is being left in the dust while the corporations and wealthy come and buy up everything around us. Then they want to rent it back to us and expect us to be happy about it. We don't want a giant city in our backyard to inflate a lot of the current issues we have. Most importantly, this puts us in danger of a much more serious water and power crisis. We get shut down by PGE when the grid is overworked every year. We are limited on our water usage and charged increasingly high prices. No. This is not wanted by the majority of the individuals who live here. Those approving of this are largely those who have a financial stake and will profit gloriously. Sell outs. When they make it rich and then move away we will know. As far as our kids staying bc a place like this exists, what a load of crap. This place is going to be a craphole. Look at SF.
62,000 acres of prime agricultural land destroyed by a foreigner who wouldn't possibly live there? Take your project somewhere else. I'm voting NO and will make sure my friends and neighbors do the same.
People can't afford housing, so build more houses? Businesses don't want to come here, they want to STAY here, but can't remain profitable with the cost of doing business and rampant crime. I would like a list of 3 businesses that want to come here. I'll Wait.
If people can't afford houses, we should build more. This is because a higher supply will decrease prices and more people will be able to afford homes.
California Forever, home to two investors (Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman, among others) who sit on federally-appointed board related to national security (Defense Innovation Advisory Board and Homeland Security Advisory Council) yet stayed quiet for years as the public in Solano County and local governments were trying to figure out who was buying land around one of the West Coast’s most important Air Force bases. Suing family farmers for $510 million in what they claim are antitrust violations. Paving over high value vernal pool habitats full of endangered and endemic species, of which 90% of these habitats no longer exist in California. Paving over grasslands for migratory waterfowl to feed on in areas where roads are literally called Goosehaven Road and Little Honker Bay Road because there is that much waterfowl. Paving over important dryland farms which use no irrigation and rangelands that protect the integrity of Solano County’s water supply, while the state of California is proposing to cut Lake Berryessa’s water supply (the major source of water for Solano County) by 75%. Proposing to build a city of 400,000 people in a county of 450,000 with no plan for water available for public review. Proposing to build a city of 400,000 on a two-lane highway with enormous traffic issues already with no promises of contributions by the investors. Just the replacement of the Rio Vista bridge was estimated at $1.2 billion dollars in 2007. That is one of three two-lane bridges from Highway 12 to I-5 and one of three two-lane bridges from Highway 12 to Highway 4. Promising to build “affordable” housing that the CEO said would be $1 million instead of the $3-4 million homes in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. All in a county where the housing supply built outpaces the state of California. Promises of jobs brought to the new community but no sign-ons by prospective employers who have committed to moving their business there. And then there’s trust. Repeated gaslighting of the voting population of Solano County by California Forever’s CEO and repeated marginalization of the opposition. A poll conducted by FM3 with an appropriate sample size for the voting population and with extremely fair questions showed 70% of the voting population would vote no on the California Forever project if the vote was today. Dodged by the CEO for the mere fact that it was funded by Greenbelt Alliance. As a 23 year-old who loves Solano County and wants to make it a better community for its people, this project would be the biggest mistake the county could make.
Ah yes too close to an air force base. You ever visited San Diego, Tacoma, and Honolulu? Water supply... desalination plants, if you can build a city than desalination plant isn't complex to build. Birds... Who's more important birds or young families wanting to seek the American dream home via homeownership? America cannot stop or go backwards. We need growth to remain a superpower. Unless you prefer the rest of the world especially China to leap ahead of us.
@@cbrox1986 The largest body of water is less than 15 miles away... Grizzly Bay. There are also nearby rivers. Antioch will use desalination in 2025. I'm sure the billionaires funding this project are able to afford a desalination plant.
Also How is California Forever acting in good faith and acceptable morals when it tries and is trying to sue people and family’s for NOT wanting to sell their land and keep it for future generations? What I’m not hearing in this biased and dishonest report is the California Forever group is bring lawsuits to the farmers who simply don’t want to sell. Of course the greedy state allows this under the false application of business fixing prices. But these are farmers selling food, the farmers are not fixing prices on food. So how does this apply. This evil vile group is saying the farmers are fixing the selling price. How when the farmers don’t want to sell. So the state government wants and is allowing the law suits to be heard and willing to entertain such thievery. This will set a president, leave your family your property and the elites will accuse you of fixing price and rob you children of your home/property/assets. This is the elites taking over and abusing the laws. This also shows the California state govt being greedy and want some of the taxes.
@@MarcusAurelius7777 yes I too would love to play sim city in real life but im mature enough to recognize it would be bad for society and especially damaging to democracy.
Without a frequent & fast transit connection between the new town & the Fairfield-Vacaville station in Fairfield, it’s going to be a car-based exurban island with an impenetrable barrier to detour around. It still might be clogged with cars because a bunch of housing subdivisions with shopping and some office spaces for coworking does not a car-light city make!
How is California Forever acting in good faith and acceptable morals when it tries and is trying to sue people and family’s for NOT wanting to sell their land and keep it for future generations? What I’m not hearing in this biased and dishonest report is the California Forever group is bring lawsuits to the farmers who simply don’t want to sell. Of course the greedy state allows this under the false application of business fixing prices. But these are farmers selling food, the farmers are not fixing prices on food. So how does this apply. This evil vile group is saying the farmers are fixing the selling price. How when the farmers don’t want to sell. So the state government wants and is allowing the law suits to be heard and willing to entertain such thievery. This will set a president, leave your family your property and the elites will accuse you of fixing price and rob you children of your home/property/assets. This is the elites taking over and abusing the laws. This also shows the California state govt being greedy and want some of the taxes.
Most of his investors are Democrats. So they want to move from Democratic Bay Area to places like Texas because of Democratic policies that leads to high taxes. So they are going to convert Solana County to increase the Democratic voters and increase taxes for all of California citizens?
Solano IS spectacular, so why are you trying to ruin our stunning landscapes & our protected wildlife with more traffic, more junk businesses, garbage homes and an infrastructurethat cant sustainthe people who already live here? We didn't need you to slink your way in here the way you did. I think your survey was garbage, your tactics underhanded and your lack of transparency was highly suspicious. Plus, you failed to include conversations with local officials, county residents and our representatives. Who does this? This is a losing proposal for the folks who live here.
Because unlike you Mary I would love to see our great country grow. I love the expansion of small and large businesses. I love seeing beautiful young families experience the American dream via homeownership. America leads the world in technology and innovation, what we need is for the Bay Area to grow. We have plenty of beautiful national forests, majority of America is open space if you ever took a road trip in this great country of ours. I'm for growth and prosperity because I'm a patriot and love this great country of ours. If you're against expansion than you're not for freedom and prosperity.
@@erictaylor3897 you don’t stand on any business you are a gullible fool and literally would be the first in the chambers lil bro because they said you would get a piece of candy. It’s bozos like you that reinforce the trajectory this country is headed in aka looking like Brazil 🇧🇷
This guy is a very _practiced_ liar. Not a _skilled_ one - he's not nearly as convincing as he thinks he is - but he's definitely had a lot of practice. It was especially funny to watch him squirm when the interviewer asked him what mistakes _he/California Forver_ had made. He completely avoided the question and only deflected and and complained about things that _other people_ had done, mistakes that he felt were committed against him, rather than anything that he and his company actually did. That is concentrated dishonesty and cowardice.
Enticing, I must admit. I’m in real estate development, high-end Moscow residential and these days working with the booming warehouse and logistics real estate markets.
You just to steal land and sell product, so land owners have no rights to pass down property to future generations? Is producing food more important than homes that creat debt and taxes for govt?
I support the project. I will vote yes. I have lived in solano county since 1995 and i have seen where back in early 2000's we tried to get BART trains to support transportation to connect to the rest of the bay area. The people foolishly voted no because it would increase their property tax. The result is that it leaves people like me to wake up ungodly hrs to avoid traffic to find meaningful employment at san Francisco international airport.There are no meaningful jobs here in my county so we have to commute to find work crossing 2 bridges daily paying $7,00 for each bridge. How the hell do you ecpect people to make it in California under these conditions. Pure insanity. The main highway going through Vallejos downtown ( highway 29) is lined with prostitutes. Its s shame and no respectful citizen should live like that. Face it, there will never be investment in the cities of Solano county because its what we created and what we are stuck with. What has the opposing congressman done to provide opportunities for us? I cannot say they have done nothing but i can say extremely miniscule.shame shame shame. Maybe they will have a change of heart if the whores roam the streets of their cities. I believe they are there because we provided nothing better for them, therefore i will vote 100% in support of this project and not allow these other people to decide my fate just because they are filled with anger.
@@hyphydan nonsense. I have made Vallejo my home. I love it here and I love solano county. That’s why I moved here. Why don’t you consider moving? My house is paid off. I did the sacrifices of the nasty commute and wakeups at 12:30 each night including 20 years of no vacation which made it possible for me to continue to live in my community. I have the fortune of not even paying property taxes anymore. BECAUSE I DID WHAT WAS NECESSARY to enjoy that standard of living.
@@raythomas2738 lol bro literally had such an L life and now while he’s on his way out wants to make sure everyone else has to get down like him. You just played the game wrong lil bro, enjoy the sideshows, whores and like 4 corrupt police officers (their entire department because of brutality scandal), because you picked the wrong place to live. Seriously you picked the third highest ranking city murder rate per capita in California!
Regarding the litigation part… the validity of text messages and emails is the data, first and foremost, subject to the nature it was obtained by… albeit sounding impressive, in reality being highly circumstantial
How is California Forever acting in good faith and acceptable morals when it tries and is trying to sue people and family’s for NOT wanting to sell their land and keep it for future generations? What I’m not hearing in this biased and dishonest report is the California Forever group is bring lawsuits to the farmers who simply don’t want to sell. Of course the greedy state allows this under the false application of business fixing prices. But these are farmers selling food, the farmers are not fixing prices on food. So how does this apply. This evil vile group is saying the farmers are fixing the selling price. How when the farmers don’t want to sell. So the state government wants and is allowing the law suits to be heard and willing to entertain such thievery. This will set a president, leave your family your property and the elites will accuse you of fixing price and rob you children of your home/property/assets. This is the elites taking over and abusing the laws. This also shows the California state govt being greedy and want some of the taxes.
So he admits to making no mistakes. Rather, he blames citizens and their understandably dubious representatives. Hard to trust someone who refuses to accept any accountability. The development idea is interesting, but he comes across as huckster in this interview.
This man is a liar. There are empty buildings everywhere in Vacaville. If businesses want to come here why don’t they. Why would he want to buy land next to Travis Air Force Base.
Build rail, problem solved. This is why China is ahead of us. America cannot fall because of old backwards thinking. We are in the fourth industrial revolution. We either remain a superpower by leading the world with technology and innovation or we fall behind and allow the rest of the world to leap ahead of us.
not if there is public transit. there should be more housing and more public transit, the only problem with this project is that it is owned by billioniares. the government should be doing this
Exactly, How is California Forever acting in good faith and acceptable morals when it tries and is trying to sue people and family’s for NOT wanting to sell their land and keep it for future generations? What I’m not hearing in this biased and dishonest report is the California Forever group is bring lawsuits to the farmers who simply don’t want to sell. Of course the greedy state allows this under the false application of business fixing prices. But these are farmers selling food, the farmers are not fixing prices on food. So how does this apply. This evil vile group is saying the farmers are fixing the selling price. How when the farmers don’t want to sell. So the state government wants and is allowing the law suits to be heard and willing to entertain such thievery. This will set a president, leave your family your property and the elites will accuse you of fixing price and rob you children of your home/property/assets. This is the elites taking over and abusing the laws. This also shows the California state govt being greedy and want some of the taxes.
That's great more Taiwanese people, I have wonderful Taiwanese neighbors. If you understand supply and demand than you know building more housing would keep prices down, not go up in Vallejo. Less housing causes people to bid at a higher price for a property, since 30 or more people are anxious to buy that one house. You'll get priced out if you're a police officer, firefighter, teacher, or veteran... Competing with someone with a 300k a year salary in tech. You build more houses than you end the bidding, tech professionals would gravitate towards newer luxurious builds. This would prevent a 40 year old 2 bedroom home from ever reaching a million dollar asking price. Texas is affordable because they're not afraid to build.
This guy knows how to talk BS. Leave the county alone. Always the same, rich city slickers thinking rural america is their playground. Rural America wants to be left alone. There is a big problem arising and it's not housing; it's the lack of respect people like this guy has against people who just wants others to respect their personal space and leave them alone. Even towns and villages have a sense of personal space, that is needed. This guys wants to fill up every square inch of space so he can fill his own bank account
This will be a walkable city in the middle of what will have to be a walkable county - the congestion will be so surreal; NO ONE will be able to move. I don't believe for a millisecond that Jan and his friends considered their move as a boon to Solano County. It is a boon to the developers, period. And all because this guy claims to have gone fishing on the Sacramento River? I'd say his fishing days better be a good memory because the Delta can't be squeezed much more than it is now and still have live fish - or any other living thing. This will destroy Rio Vista, cause Travis AFB to shut down, use non-existent water, create awful road congestion and ruin Solano's well thought out Growth Ordinance that limited new residential development to urban areas, not agricultural land. You can experience a preview right now by taking a drive through San Jose, Mountain View, Palo Alto and surrounds. Better start early because the congestion is terrible!
Ah yes bases in large cities in San Diego, Honolulu, and Tacoma had shut down due to a large population and traffic. Had you ever sat in Oahu traffic? Water desalination plant, plenty of water in the ocean to convert to fresh water. Traffic could be solved if you ever visited a city in Asia with 10 million plus people. They usually get around in these bizarre things called trains. America needs growth in order to remain a superpower, if you're against growth than you're not patriotic. America cannot allow the the rest of the world to leap ahead of us. You have white hairs, sell your home and move to a quiet retirement community. Allow young people to live the American dream via homeownership and allow this great country to expand.
Solano County already has a population density! 🥲 Taxpayers are on the hook 🪝 for the infrastructure! Billionaires will be Trillionaires just by investing in housing the working person can't afford.
To believe this will be a 'cheaper option', is not realistic... time will reveal the truth for this. The UNspoken aspect of this is that its a C40 city, which brings with it some positives, but also alot of new negatives.
this guy is the shister stock trader that "makes his investors 15% " returns a year.. but I make 15% in a 30 min day trade .. I wonder what he does with the rest of the year with them investors money????
For context, Napa did exactly this: replaced farms with housing, only for the housing to be unaffordable for the low income and only the ultra rich to afford.
That's too bad... Oh well.
@@erictaylor3897 erm glazing much gawk gawk get it out your mouth big dawg it’s embarrassing
Look at this way. A bunch of rich people are now living on a previously farm land and not competing with local on housing. Not really bad..
@@Danji_Coppersmoke go live in the area and have it effect you and your wallet then
@@erictaylor3897 you are a coward
Huge issue with this project is the fact California Forever is expecting tax dollars to fund much of the infrastructure projects for this development. This will lead to higher taxes for Californians, theres no way around that. They say they will pay "their fair share", I bet that isn't even half the total cost, let alone anything close to the lifetime cost to maintain this new infrastucture. All of that maintainance will be a huge expense and eventually require replacing. All to be paid for with Californians (and by extension Solano County residents) tax dollars, diverting funds from other local projects and existing comunities. IF they were to pay for MOST of the infrastucture improvments and MAINTAINANCE COSTS for a period of years it would be a welcome project, but they are not as thats not as profitable. Jan and California Forever are effectively asking us to subsadize their city of million dollar homes none of us can afford , all while making them huge profits at our expense.
How is California Forever acting in good faith and acceptable morals when it tries and is trying to sue people and family’s for NOT wanting to sell their land and keep it for future generations?
What I’m not hearing in this biased and dishonest report is the California Forever group is bring lawsuits to the farmers who simply don’t want to sell.
Of course the greedy state allows this under the false application of business fixing prices. But these are farmers selling food, the farmers are not fixing prices on food. So how does this apply.
This evil vile group is saying the farmers are fixing the selling price. How when the farmers don’t want to sell. So the state government wants and is allowing the law suits to be heard and willing to entertain such thievery.
This will set a president, leave your family your property and the elites will accuse you of fixing price and rob you children of your home/property/assets.
This is the elites taking over and abusing the laws. This also shows the California state govt being greedy and want some of the taxes.
This is literally like the scene from “There Will Be Blood” when Daniel Plainview assures community he will bring prosperity
My God exactly
How many people in that audience live in Solano County !?!?! Solano already has half a million people! Now you want to build homes for more commuters, that start at close to amillion dollars!
No jobs to go with the people!
So just adding to the congestion and commuters already on the road.
Now Solano is expected to foot the bill for more roads that already can’t handle the traffic it has!!
California is about to cut 75% water usage .
Where is the water going to come from?
An already strained water utility! The Delta? Yeah, that water cut is about saving the planet. You build a a desalination plant out there… I’m sure we will foot the bill for that as well. Never mind the damage it will do to the Delta.
Go buy up the dirt between here and the Train to No Where that wasted how much money and they we alllll still pay for. 🤦🏽♀️
You want to fix what’s wrong with California! MAKE IT AFFORDABLE TO LIVE HERE!!
You should try visiting Asia. Half a million people is just a small village compared to an Asian city. Build more transit such as rail, young people are not driving as much as they use to. Make transit workable and safe. Water could be drilled or build a desalination plant. Every young person deserves an affordable home. Or would you rather have the majority of our young people move to Panama, Mexico, and Thailand? People are frustrated, we need drastic projects like this to make the Bay Area workable for everyone. Supply and demand, if you understand that basic part of economics.
@@erictaylor3897 🤣 Or California could make it Affordable to live in the cities they already have. You know, not screw up someone else’s county and build more.. Destroy the Delta… Desalinate more ocean…
The bulk of California’s water goes to Los Angeles!
Do some homework on where they get their water!
They just cram more people into THE SAME SPACE. How is that HELPFUL?
Million Dollar homes is NOT AFFORDABLE!
How about we not screw up what little agricultural land we have and create more water issues in a county that already has water issues! Asian is a prime example of over population! CRAMMING TOO MANY PEOPLE INTO TOO SMALL OF A SPACE!
People are not going to stop having kids. 🤦🏽♀️
Turn all the empty houses and building into affordable housing!
California could have been building more water storage all this time… instead of a useless train to no where…
California could have been building Desalinization plants all this time too.
California could have been making it more affordable to live for a long time.
Now , a bunch of idiots want to cram more people in an already burdened county … into UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING !
WITHOUT THE INCOME TO SUPPORT IT!
Bringing in another 400,000 people BUT NOT 400,000 jobs!!
BASIC economics!
You’re right! We will be like Asia.. too many people for too small of a space. Not enough jobs to support what we have… 🤦🏽♀️
This is hard to watch.
LIES
As a Vacaville native, the thing people who live here have hated the most over the years is the increase in population, traffic, air pollution, and an oversaturation of resources(water, electricity, medical, recreational, residential etc,)
We have also suffered a huge influx of corporate investors who have bought up a lot of homes where families could not compete, and who in large part caused this housing crisis we are in. The middle class is being left in the dust while the corporations and wealthy come and buy up everything around us. Then they want to rent it back to us and expect us to be happy about it.
We don't want a giant city in our backyard to inflate a lot of the current issues we have.
Most importantly, this puts us in danger of a much more serious water and power crisis.
We get shut down by PGE when the grid is overworked every year. We are limited on our water usage and charged increasingly high prices.
No. This is not wanted by the majority of the individuals who live here. Those approving of this are largely those who have a financial stake and will profit gloriously. Sell outs. When they make it rich and then move away we will know.
As far as our kids staying bc a place like this exists, what a load of crap. This place is going to be a craphole. Look at SF.
62,000 acres of prime agricultural land destroyed by a foreigner who wouldn't possibly live there? Take your project somewhere else. I'm voting NO and will make sure my friends and neighbors do the same.
Thank you! The best way to defeat this billionaire scam is through your grassroots efforts
It is not prime agricultural land.
It's very productive agricultural land that is dry farmed which means a crop is grown without irrigation (with only rainfall).
People can't afford housing, so build more houses? Businesses don't want to come here, they want to STAY here, but can't remain profitable with the cost of doing business and rampant crime. I would like a list of 3 businesses that want to come here. I'll Wait.
If people can't afford houses, we should build more. This is because a higher supply will decrease prices and more people will be able to afford homes.
@@rowangibson3196 you don’t live in solano I got your doxx
what rampant crime?
@@shway1 are you ill
Never trust billionaires
California Forever, home to two investors (Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman, among others) who sit on federally-appointed board related to national security (Defense Innovation Advisory Board and Homeland Security Advisory Council) yet stayed quiet for years as the public in Solano County and local governments were trying to figure out who was buying land around one of the West Coast’s most important Air Force bases. Suing family farmers for $510 million in what they claim are antitrust violations. Paving over high value vernal pool habitats full of endangered and endemic species, of which 90% of these habitats no longer exist in California. Paving over grasslands for migratory waterfowl to feed on in areas where roads are literally called Goosehaven Road and Little Honker Bay Road because there is that much waterfowl. Paving over important dryland farms which use no irrigation and rangelands that protect the integrity of Solano County’s water supply, while the state of California is proposing to cut Lake Berryessa’s water supply (the major source of water for Solano County) by 75%. Proposing to build a city of 400,000 people in a county of 450,000 with no plan for water available for public review. Proposing to build a city of 400,000 on a two-lane highway with enormous traffic issues already with no promises of contributions by the investors. Just the replacement of the Rio Vista bridge was estimated at $1.2 billion dollars in 2007. That is one of three two-lane bridges from Highway 12 to I-5 and one of three two-lane bridges from Highway 12 to Highway 4. Promising to build “affordable” housing that the CEO said would be $1 million instead of the $3-4 million homes in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. All in a county where the housing supply built outpaces the state of California. Promises of jobs brought to the new community but no sign-ons by prospective employers who have committed to moving their business there. And then there’s trust. Repeated gaslighting of the voting population of Solano County by California Forever’s CEO and repeated marginalization of the opposition. A poll conducted by FM3 with an appropriate sample size for the voting population and with extremely fair questions showed 70% of the voting population would vote no on the California Forever project if the vote was today. Dodged by the CEO for the mere fact that it was funded by Greenbelt Alliance. As a 23 year-old who loves Solano County and wants to make it a better community for its people, this project would be the biggest mistake the county could make.
Ah yes too close to an air force base. You ever visited San Diego, Tacoma, and Honolulu? Water supply... desalination plants, if you can build a city than desalination plant isn't complex to build. Birds... Who's more important birds or young families wanting to seek the American dream home via homeownership? America cannot stop or go backwards. We need growth to remain a superpower. Unless you prefer the rest of the world especially China to leap ahead of us.
@@erictaylor3897 this new community is 50 miles from the nearest coastline
@@cbrox1986 The largest body of water is less than 15 miles away... Grizzly Bay. There are also nearby rivers. Antioch will use desalination in 2025. I'm sure the billionaires funding this project are able to afford a desalination plant.
@@erictaylor3897 I told you dummy I got your doxx
Btw Jewish much?
the main problem with this is that billionaires shouldn't even exist let alone own entire cities.
Also How is California Forever acting in good faith and acceptable morals when it tries and is trying to sue people and family’s for NOT wanting to sell their land and keep it for future generations?
What I’m not hearing in this biased and dishonest report is the California Forever group is bring lawsuits to the farmers who simply don’t want to sell.
Of course the greedy state allows this under the false application of business fixing prices. But these are farmers selling food, the farmers are not fixing prices on food. So how does this apply.
This evil vile group is saying the farmers are fixing the selling price. How when the farmers don’t want to sell. So the state government wants and is allowing the law suits to be heard and willing to entertain such thievery.
This will set a president, leave your family your property and the elites will accuse you of fixing price and rob you children of your home/property/assets.
This is the elites taking over and abusing the laws. This also shows the California state govt being greedy and want some of the taxes.
You're just jealous... lol
@@MarcusAurelius7777 yes I too would love to play sim city in real life but im mature enough to recognize it would be bad for society and especially damaging to democracy.
He's not "going to", he wants to." Words are important.
Did he do this in his home country?
There’s another name for California Forever: Hell
he really compared disney a week vacation to a whole community
Without a frequent & fast transit connection between the new town & the Fairfield-Vacaville station in Fairfield, it’s going to be a car-based exurban island with an impenetrable barrier to detour around. It still might be clogged with cars because a bunch of housing subdivisions with shopping and some office spaces for coworking does not a car-light city make!
These tech bros are not supporters of the common people of California.
It's not tech bros, it's Chinese
How is California Forever acting in good faith and acceptable morals when it tries and is trying to sue people and family’s for NOT wanting to sell their land and keep it for future generations?
What I’m not hearing in this biased and dishonest report is the California Forever group is bring lawsuits to the farmers who simply don’t want to sell.
Of course the greedy state allows this under the false application of business fixing prices. But these are farmers selling food, the farmers are not fixing prices on food. So how does this apply.
This evil vile group is saying the farmers are fixing the selling price. How when the farmers don’t want to sell. So the state government wants and is allowing the law suits to be heard and willing to entertain such thievery.
This will set a president, leave your family your property and the elites will accuse you of fixing price and rob you children of your home/property/assets.
This is the elites taking over and abusing the laws. This also shows the California state govt being greedy and want some of the taxes.
doing it for his pockets not for the community thats going to push everything expensive to to my city
Most of his investors are Democrats. So they want to move from Democratic Bay Area to places like Texas because of Democratic policies that leads to high taxes. So they are going to convert Solana County to increase the Democratic voters and increase taxes for all of California citizens?
Solano IS spectacular, so why are you trying to ruin our stunning landscapes & our protected wildlife with more traffic, more junk businesses, garbage homes and an infrastructurethat cant sustainthe people who already live here? We didn't need you to slink your way in here the way you did. I think your survey was garbage, your tactics underhanded and your lack of transparency was highly suspicious. Plus, you failed to include conversations with local officials, county residents and our representatives. Who does this? This is a losing proposal for the folks who live here.
Well stated
Because unlike you Mary I would love to see our great country grow. I love the expansion of small and large businesses. I love seeing beautiful young families experience the American dream via homeownership. America leads the world in technology and innovation, what we need is for the Bay Area to grow. We have plenty of beautiful national forests, majority of America is open space if you ever took a road trip in this great country of ours. I'm for growth and prosperity because I'm a patriot and love this great country of ours. If you're against expansion than you're not for freedom and prosperity.
@@erictaylor3897 you don’t stand on any business you are a gullible fool and literally would be the first in the chambers lil bro because they said you would get a piece of candy. It’s bozos like you that reinforce the trajectory this country is headed in aka looking like Brazil 🇧🇷
@@erictaylor3897 get owned lil bro
@@klaatubarada7556 Whatever pushes our nation forwards
What a scam - Absolutely not. Vote No
I'm definitely voting NO on re zoning
This guy is a very _practiced_ liar. Not a _skilled_ one - he's not nearly as convincing as he thinks he is - but he's definitely had a lot of practice.
It was especially funny to watch him squirm when the interviewer asked him what mistakes _he/California Forver_ had made. He completely avoided the question and only deflected and and complained about things that _other people_ had done, mistakes that he felt were committed against him, rather than anything that he and his company actually did. That is concentrated dishonesty and cowardice.
Take it somewhere else, we do not want it #saynotocaliforniaforever
Lies nothing but lies!
Solano already have a lot of crap to be worried about, and now this.
SO ITS TRUE !? YOU SUED PEOPLE FOR NOT SELLING ?!?! WTF !?
Yep, you didn't need to buy the land for what you paid that is on you. You chose to pay that and then sue them for what you chose to pay
We want to go to Disneyland.....
Top 5 nasty yea ain’t even gotta ask me
Enticing, I must admit. I’m in real estate development, high-end Moscow residential and these days working with the booming warehouse and logistics real estate markets.
You just to steal land and sell product, so land owners have no rights to pass down property to future generations?
Is producing food more important than homes that creat debt and taxes for govt?
I support the project. I will vote yes. I have lived in solano county since 1995 and i have seen where back in early 2000's we tried to get BART trains to support transportation to connect to the rest of the bay area. The people foolishly voted no because it would increase their property tax. The result is that it leaves people like me to wake up ungodly hrs to avoid traffic to find meaningful employment at san Francisco international airport.There are no meaningful jobs here in my county so we have to commute to find work crossing 2 bridges daily paying $7,00 for each bridge. How the hell do you ecpect people to make it in California under these conditions. Pure insanity. The main highway going through Vallejos downtown ( highway 29) is lined with prostitutes. Its s shame and no respectful citizen should live like that. Face it, there will never be investment in the cities of Solano county because its what we created and what we are stuck with. What has the opposing congressman done to provide opportunities for us? I cannot say they have done nothing but i can say extremely miniscule.shame shame shame. Maybe they will have a change of heart if the whores roam the streets of their cities. I believe they are there because we provided nothing better for them, therefore i will vote 100% in support of this project and not allow these other people to decide my fate just because they are filled with anger.
Commute to the Peninsula? Maybe you should sell and get a condo in Hayward?
@@hyphydan nonsense. I have made Vallejo my home. I love it here and I love solano county. That’s why I moved here. Why don’t you consider moving? My house is paid off. I did the sacrifices of the nasty commute and wakeups at 12:30 each night including 20 years of no vacation which made it possible for me to continue to live in my community. I have the fortune of not even paying property taxes anymore. BECAUSE I DID WHAT WAS NECESSARY to enjoy that standard of living.
@@raythomas2738 lol bro literally had such an L life and now while he’s on his way out wants to make sure everyone else has to get down like him. You just played the game wrong lil bro, enjoy the sideshows, whores and like 4 corrupt police officers (their entire department because of brutality scandal), because you picked the wrong place to live. Seriously you picked the third highest ranking city murder rate per capita in California!
Regarding the litigation part… the validity of text messages and emails is the data, first and foremost, subject to the nature it was obtained by… albeit sounding impressive, in reality being highly circumstantial
How is California Forever acting in good faith and acceptable morals when it tries and is trying to sue people and family’s for NOT wanting to sell their land and keep it for future generations?
What I’m not hearing in this biased and dishonest report is the California Forever group is bring lawsuits to the farmers who simply don’t want to sell.
Of course the greedy state allows this under the false application of business fixing prices. But these are farmers selling food, the farmers are not fixing prices on food. So how does this apply.
This evil vile group is saying the farmers are fixing the selling price. How when the farmers don’t want to sell. So the state government wants and is allowing the law suits to be heard and willing to entertain such thievery.
This will set a president, leave your family your property and the elites will accuse you of fixing price and rob you children of your home/property/assets.
This is the elites taking over and abusing the laws. This also shows the California state govt being greedy and want some of the taxes.
So he admits to making no mistakes. Rather, he blames citizens and their understandably dubious representatives. Hard to trust someone who refuses to accept any accountability. The development idea is interesting, but he comes across as huckster in this interview.
This man is a liar. There are empty buildings everywhere in Vacaville. If businesses want to come here why don’t they. Why would he want to buy land next to Travis Air Force Base.
MORE HOUSING, MORE TRAFFIC YOU ARE IN IT FOR THE MONEY !
Build rail, problem solved. This is why China is ahead of us. America cannot fall because of old backwards thinking. We are in the fourth industrial revolution. We either remain a superpower by leading the world with technology and innovation or we fall behind and allow the rest of the world to leap ahead of us.
not if there is public transit. there should be more housing and more public transit, the only problem with this project is that it is owned by billioniares. the government should be doing this
"mistake" is doing it secretly until the news broke; this project is shady in their way of doing things.
Yessir you got it right smart man
Exactly,
How is California Forever acting in good faith and acceptable morals when it tries and is trying to sue people and family’s for NOT wanting to sell their land and keep it for future generations?
What I’m not hearing in this biased and dishonest report is the California Forever group is bring lawsuits to the farmers who simply don’t want to sell.
Of course the greedy state allows this under the false application of business fixing prices. But these are farmers selling food, the farmers are not fixing prices on food. So how does this apply.
This evil vile group is saying the farmers are fixing the selling price. How when the farmers don’t want to sell. So the state government wants and is allowing the law suits to be heard and willing to entertain such thievery.
This will set a president, leave your family your property and the elites will accuse you of fixing price and rob you children of your home/property/assets.
This is the elites taking over and abusing the laws. This also shows the California state govt being greedy and want some of the taxes.
A lot of Taiwanese people will live there. Houses in Vallejo will go up!
That's great more Taiwanese people, I have wonderful Taiwanese neighbors. If you understand supply and demand than you know building more housing would keep prices down, not go up in Vallejo. Less housing causes people to bid at a higher price for a property, since 30 or more people are anxious to buy that one house. You'll get priced out if you're a police officer, firefighter, teacher, or veteran... Competing with someone with a 300k a year salary in tech. You build more houses than you end the bidding, tech professionals would gravitate towards newer luxurious builds. This would prevent a 40 year old 2 bedroom home from ever reaching a million dollar asking price. Texas is affordable because they're not afraid to build.
@@erictaylor3897 slop dealer that’s what you are
California forever name sounds like a Cemetery.
This guy knows how to talk BS. Leave the county alone. Always the same, rich city slickers thinking rural america is their playground. Rural America wants to be left alone. There is a big problem arising and it's not housing; it's the lack of respect people like this guy has against people who just wants others to respect their personal space and leave them alone. Even towns and villages have a sense of personal space, that is needed. This guys wants to fill up every square inch of space so he can fill his own bank account
This will be a walkable city in the middle of what will have to be a walkable county - the congestion will be so surreal; NO ONE will be able to move. I don't believe for a millisecond that Jan and his friends considered their move as a boon to Solano County. It is a boon to the developers, period. And all because this guy claims to have gone fishing on the Sacramento River? I'd say his fishing days better be a good memory because the Delta can't be squeezed much more than it is now and still have live fish - or any other living thing.
This will destroy Rio Vista, cause Travis AFB to shut down, use non-existent water, create awful road congestion and ruin Solano's well thought out Growth Ordinance that limited new residential development to urban areas, not agricultural land. You can experience a preview right now by taking a drive through San Jose, Mountain View, Palo Alto and surrounds. Better start early because the congestion is terrible!
Ah yes bases in large cities in San Diego, Honolulu, and Tacoma had shut down due to a large population and traffic. Had you ever sat in Oahu traffic? Water desalination plant, plenty of water in the ocean to convert to fresh water. Traffic could be solved if you ever visited a city in Asia with 10 million plus people. They usually get around in these bizarre things called trains. America needs growth in order to remain a superpower, if you're against growth than you're not patriotic. America cannot allow the the rest of the world to leap ahead of us. You have white hairs, sell your home and move to a quiet retirement community. Allow young people to live the American dream via homeownership and allow this great country to expand.
@@erictaylor3897 nice copy and paste I’m on that azz lil bro erm goey much
Buying all in Secret ?
Solano County already has a population density! 🥲 Taxpayers are on the hook 🪝 for the infrastructure! Billionaires will be Trillionaires just by investing in housing the working person can't afford.
He is finding it hard to make a Silk Purse out a a mosquito ridden Sows Ear.
Voting No!
good luck getting job in Solano,
To believe this will be a 'cheaper option', is not realistic... time will reveal the truth for this. The UNspoken aspect of this is that its a C40 city, which brings with it some positives, but also alot of new negatives.
this guy is the shister stock trader that "makes his investors 15% " returns a year.. but I make 15% in a 30 min day trade .. I wonder what he does with the rest of the year with them investors money????