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Sramek: California Forever city is designed for up to 400,000 residents

Jan Sramek · Rebuilding the California Dream · Mar 5, 2024 · at 11:09

Jan Sramek is the CEO of California Forever, a venture building a new master-planned city in Solano County, California.

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“And then imagine that it was a city for up to 400,000 people that was entitled and approved at once, and so you knew that for the next you knew that for the next 30 years, if this office is going to work and you'll be able to hire talent there, there'll be enough space for you to grow in for the next 30 years.”

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The claim, plainly

California Forever is designing its planned city in Solano County to hold up to 400,000 residents and provide enough housing and office space for 30 years of growth.

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Assessment

The resolution criteria require official master plan filings, environmental impact reports, or public initiative proposals for California Forever's Solano County development (East Solano Plan) to specify a target population capacity of up to 400,000 residents and housing/office capacity designed for a 30-year growth horizon. Public filings submitted in February 2024 ('East Solano Homes, Jobs, and Clean Energy Initiative') explicitly set the full build-out population capacity at up to 400,000 residents alongside up to 80 million square feet of non-residential development. Furthermore, associated economic and planning analyses modeled the project over a 30-year development timeframe, fully matching the claim made by Jan Sramek.

In February 2024, California Forever submitted the 'East Solano Homes, Jobs, and Clean Energy Initiative' to the Solano County Registrar of Voters specifying a full build-out capacity of up to 400,000 residents.
The initiative and accompanying planning documents specified up to 80 million square feet of non-residential (retail, office/professional, light industrial) space at full build-out.
Economic and planning impact studies (including those by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute) modeled the full buildout over a 30-year planning horizon.

Checked against

[1] a16z.com [2] californiaforever.com [3] wikipedia.org [4] urbanexus.com [5] californiaforever.com [6] scribd.com [7] calmatters.org [8] m-fhc.com

California Forever Solano County 400000 residents 30 years growth "400,000" "30 years" "California Forever" OR "Jan Sramek" "East Solano Plan" initiative text "400,000" capacity OR residents Jan Sramek California Forever 400000 population capacity initiative text "East Solano Plan" "30 years" OR "30-year" growth capacity East Solano Plan master plan filings 400000 residents

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