Plan for California startup city may have found backdoor off the ballot

Source: Politico

“The billionaire-backed effort to build a massive new city unsaddled from California’s urban problems may have just found a backdoor that saves the group from having to put its deeply unpopular project before Solano County voters. The council of Suisun City, a small 27,000 town northeast of San Francisco, voted last Tuesday to direct its city manager to discuss growing the size of the city with ‘regional partners’ as a way to resolve long-standing financial challenges faced by the municipality. … the only direction the city can expand is east — directly into land owned by California Forever, the group behind the contentious effort to develop a dense, new-urbanist-style city that would double the county’s population.” (01/27/25)

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/27/california-startup-city-ballot-00200836