At @BuildCasa we got a lot of Q’s when we signed on to support California Forever given our focus on infill development in existing neighborhoods. Why do we back the plan? 1) CA needs 3.5M units and walkable greenfield communities are part of the solution. 2) We used to build ambitious projects in the US and now it seems impossible. We support audacious plans to build housing without the need for government subsidy. 3) @jansramek has given his time and energy to provide us with feedback on our approach to scaling infill development despite being laser focused on bringing California Forever to fruition. He’s mission driven and has a high say/do ratio. Don’t bet against him.

https://x.com/benwbear/status/1803464890566558102

As a career public servant, I believe that growing California is key to California's success. We must build more housing and create more opportunities for everyone; and we cannot afford to be too picky about where the housing is built and through what methods. The California Forever project has the potential to be a key site for California's advancement.

I met the team behind California Forever this week at Edge Esmerelda.

They are taking an ambitious swing at creating affordable walkable family-friendly urbanism.

Hard to imagine a better way to practically improve society.

I just received this from a member of our community: “This is my biggest personal life challenge right now. Walkable neighborhoods I can affordably move my entire family to.”

https://x.com/JonathanHillis/status/1803540153614606809

Sprawl is a pattern, not a location. Everything shown so far by the California Forever people is filled with patterns of urbanity, not sprawl.

https://x.com/stevemouzon/status/1803372944321577002

Please build this. We need things to be built again in America.

This really should be what the housing variety and density of our cities and inner ring suburbs should look like:

https://x.com/the_transit_guy/status/1911827450075517258

I want a real grocery store, finally!

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

I learned about the project via the Navy; I see opportunity to reindustrialize, while employing americans at a more advanced level in the trades- jobs that not only require mechanical skills but critical thinking. I work in the nexus between technology, capital, national security and ensuring we are strong and relevant for the next generation.

I’m a futurist and I think this has the chance to become the first smart future city.

I simply love my home state of California and support any project that seeks to inject affordable housing and smart zoning into it.

I want to move to California, I support a planned community, affordable housing, urban setting, close to restaurants and professional services.

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 am from the Sacramento area and looking to move back home and settle down in the near future. This is the type of building that will get me to come home sooner and with plenty of excitement to do it!

Claiming we can make significant progress through incremental improvements with TOD is not a serious POV. The only possibility to create badly needed real change for families and children is outside the system. We need moonshot projects like @EdgeEsmeralda and @CAForever

https://x.com/Chris_Smeder/status/1870392497496846447

California is one of the most beautiful and desirable places on earth. It’s also the world’s innovation hub. It’s time to build more homes and grow California. I’m also really excited to see a pedestrian and bike first American city get built. We need more of that.

https://x.com/alexisxrivas/status/1876485887351246922

I think we really need a new wave of building in California that is not just urban sprawl or masterplanned singe-family homes. I'm excited to see this city form its own culture with a mix of modern and unique architecture styles and new industries like heavy industry that are rarer in NorCal. I really hope it can become a beacon that beautiful cities can still be built in the 21st century!

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.

CA needs a walkable city that is not designed for independent car ownership first.

Because we need more tech start ups and we need more housing.

We left the Bay Area because it was too expensive