Locals Are Fighting Billionaires’ Utopian City at Every Turn

Duane Kromm, an outspoken opponent of a proposed billionaire-backed city in northern California, arrived at the Solano County Water Authority meeting this month 15 minutes early to make sure he got a seat near the front. He was too late: The meeting room—which holds up to 100 people and rarely reaches capacity—was already full.

“The room was packed, the halls were packed … I was out in the hall saying, ‘Who are all you people?’” he told The Daily Beast. “It was overwhelming opposition to working with [the developers] in any way shape or form.”

California Forever, a group of Silicon Valley titans hoping to create a new city in a rural area 60 miles northeast of San Francisco, has faced local resistance from the day it launched this summer with a splashy website and promises to “bring back the California Dream.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.