Billionaires’ Secretive Plan to Build a New City Is Backfiring
- Project is backed by Mike Moritz and other tech billionaires
- Fairfield mayor has been lining up opposition among locals
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A secret plan backed by tech billionaires to create a new city northeast of San Francisco is running into resistance — an indication of the long road ahead in a state where it’s hard to build almost anything.
Catherine Moy, the mayor of Fairfield, has been lining up opposition to the group of Silicon Valley moguls after learning last week that they were behind the purchase of at least 52,000 acres of farmland in Solano County, a buying spree done extremely discreetly over several years.