Night City here we go
Turning productive again land into more strip malls is incredibly short sighted. I hope someone strengthens Williamson act protections on ag land to stop this craziness.
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That’s not the issue. The supply of productive agricultural land is limited, and every year we get a little bit less as we exploit the fields more. Modern ag practices are akin to soil mining, where each year a bit more of the soil health is stripped out. Fertilizers can help, but it’s still a gradual loss over time.
Now, they’re planning on taking those productive ag soils and just shoving houses on top. It’s so short sighted and such a waste. Every year more strip malls and housing are built and the amount of ag lands gets less and less.
There’s plenty of space within existing urban limit lines to build more housing and development. Instead, we’re getting investors to destroy limited resources to cash out by making more mega mansions.
They’ve obviously never heard of California City. It’s not so simple to build from scratch, especially at a true City scale. Cities tend to evolve organically
It’ll be like a city version of the death sub. Let’s see it.
It’s not really a secretive plan if the latimes and every other news outlet is reporting on it.
It was secret right up until it wasn’t, which I think happened Sunday.
They had been buying up a ton of land around Travis Air Force Base since 2018 and no one, including the government, could figure out who was ultimately behind the purchases. There were security concerns with 75% of the land around a critical Airforce base being bought. It even has been discussed in the US Senate. Then the story broke that a group of silicon valley investors are planning on building a city.
Sure, but adding that word makes people interested in reading the article.
Sure, but lying to get more readers is not a good journalism practice. It creates a slippery slope about how much you can bend the truth just so you can get more clicks.
Oh they’ve been sliding down that slope for awhile now (decades).
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