https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/mystery-bay-area-buyer-poll-new-city-18311007.php
“This project would include a new city with tens of thousands of new homes, a large solar energy farm, orchards with over a million new trees, and over ten thousand acres of new parks and open space,” the survey continues.
It goes on to ask a variety of questions, prompting respondents to pick if the statement makes them “much more likely” to support the initiative, “somewhat more likely” or “less likely” or if it has “no impact on support.” Among the statements are:
— “Solano County residents would be given priority and downpayment assistance to buy or lease homes in this new project.”
— “It would replace Solano County’s current aqueduct.”
— “It would be funded entirely by private sector money.”
— “It is being led by a group of architects and planners interested in building livable and sustainable communities, not typical developers.”
— “It is being funded by a group of California firms and wealthy families who are committed to our state’s future.”
The new city is pitched as having a “feel like a college town,” with a mixture of housing, schools and restaurants and an emphasis on walkability.
Because the survey was sent via an online survey site, it’s not clear who is behind the mass texts. Three lawyers listed as representing Flannery in a recent lawsuit did not respond to requests for comment by publication time.
Since news of Flannery’s acquisitions broke, locals have speculated the buyer could be planning anything from a deep water port to a regional airport to even a nuclear power plant. But building a new city from scratch would present its own set of challenges. For one, the developer would need to acquire water rights to support large suburban housing tracts. And, according to Farley, it would need to change Solano County’s “orderly growth” policy, which restricts urban development in many parts of the county.
“As the mayor of Fairfield, I sit on countywide boards that have received Flannery offers to buy land at greatly inflated prices. We turned the offers away to protect Travis,” Moy wrote on her public Facebook page Tuesday. “I tried contacting the firm that is pushing this poll. My email bounced back. I then searched for the firm elsewhere, but couldn’t locate them. They are yet another mystery in the ongoing saga of Flannery.”