Let's bring California back to its former glory!!

I’m thinking about this because of recent YIMBY discourse about the East Solano Plan, a proposal to build a medium-density, walkable community of 400,000 in Solano County. I’m happy to see @cayimby endorse the project, which would do a lot to address our severe housing crisis.

https://x.com/natty_dub/status/1803608228640756103

Love to see @cayimby support California Forever.

California has a spirit of innovation. It’s a place that shapes culture. It’s an economic powerhouse. And it’s blessed with great weather and natural beauty. Yet it’s also struggling in many ways.

For one, there’s a huge housing shortage.

California needs all kinds of new housing – including thoughtful new cities like California Forever. I believe it will serve as a model for better urbanism and development. Their team is thoughtful, open minded, and taking a long term approach.

I love the plan’s focus on walkability, a healthy housing density, and creating local jobs.

It’s an important mission to get behind. It’s important to get behind smart driven people trying something new, behind people building great new places for people to live. Perfection is not possible, that doesn’t mean the pursuit isn’t worthwhile.

I’m excited to see this project come to life, and hopefully play a small part in it.

https://x.com/alexisxrivas/status/1803280169832239564

As the President of the National Town Builders Association I am pleased to see this kind of urban planning that looks to the past for inspiration and to the future for progress. Designing walkable, sustainable, complete neighborhoods and towns is the only real way to get us out of our cars while remarkably improving a sense of community. Humans thrive and flourish when the built environment supports human connectivity, personal safety, and health and wellness. The principles and the people behind the planning of California Forever are both thoughtful and strategic. As a 17 year resident of California prior to relocating for professional reasons, I am excited to see what this project will do for this area and its influence on the country.

We must build and expand the United States of America. California has SO MUCH untapped potential. We just need to build the infrastructure to expand – let's go USA.

I’m excited about a walkable city of 400,000! Let’s embrace the California spirit that brought us the Master Plan for Higher Education, the State Water Project, and even the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. California can still do big things.

https://x.com/hanlonbt/status/1803246245970162131

This is a visionary and strategic plan and as a technology strategist, I only wonder why we haven’t pushed this thinking sooner. We need to regain the leadership we’ve had on tech innovation across the world and California is the best place to do it.

Please make this happen! California needs cities with better urban planning and land use! Set the example for others to follow with high and medium density mixed use zoning that allows people to use their legs instead of separating everyone into dangerous individual vehicles.

The California Forever project is interesting because it’s attempting to solve this problem at a scale that nobody really has in America: to build a truly urban community from scratch in a surrounding context that is exurban and car-dependent. Ambitious.

https://x.com/dpherriges/status/1806044041546535139

Good to see @cayimby come out in support of California Forever.

We need both infill and greenfield development if we want to make an impact on the CA housing shortage.

Walkable and mixed use new development is something everyone should support.

https://x.com/ryrzny/status/1803306434874187789

My hope is that this project succeeds, and it inspires existing cities to allow more infill reform.

Eventually, voters will get tired of watching their towns bankrupted by housing shortages, and there will be an example in Solano, of how they could have behaved.

https://x.com/howtoadu/status/1804224097934856201

“By the standards of the rest of the world, basically every city here is a new city. And many of them are pretty recent. I mean, you look at Columbia, Maryland, or Irvine, California. They are 60 years old. …They looked like cow pastures 60 years ago, and today they are these bustling places. So there’s actual examples. It’s not rocket science. …We are not trying to invent a reusable rocket that lands. We are not trying to invent AI. It’s become non-controversial to say that we can invent software that’s as smart as humans or smarter, but somehow a lot of people today are saying, “we can’t build some houses and factories and a sewer line.” I mean, we’ve known how to do this for 5,000 years.”

https://x.com/reidhoffman/status/1807530864152084975

We need more housing and more developed land available for new enterprises in the Bay Area.

This new city, to me, is the perfect way to get on with building abundance in California.

Looking forward to investing.

I’m a Brentwood, California resident and fully support this initiative and improving the lives of our neighbors in Solano County.

I’m also very excited for the fact that this would greatly help the local communities and the next generation in the area to have access to job opportunities.

I myself have been working in Silicon Valley tech for the last 10 years and have realized how important it is for us to keep expanding the region to bring opportunities for the generations to come and have access to the American Dream.

I am also a real-estate investor in the far east bay region which is the other reason why this project excites me a lot.

I grew up on Mare Island – once the home to a robust US Naval Shipyard. I want to see this wonderful area thrive again. I can't even begin to count the wonderful natural advantages a location like Solano County possesses. I am CEO of a national skilled trades workforce provider (the largest provider to US shipyards nationwide), and I would like to once again return to this "homeland" – and establish a western HQ there!

I can understand why California Forever exists, and how the extreme frustration of attempting to reform land use patterns leads some people to say F@!k it and want to start from scratch*. It’s tough having both the left and right fight a basic human need.

https://x.com/orangutanagram/status/1804302034470080716

Embrace abundance. Reject the faux-YIMBYs who want to force you to live in the pod by banning greenfield development

https://x.com/bhargreaves/status/1803458985074319577

I live in New York City, but I'm so thrilled about this project and can't wait to see it come to fruition.

I support any initiative that would provide affordable housing in the most expensive state to live in. Looking forward to seeing this through and becoming a part of the program.