Solano
Article
Solano is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 11, 2023 and February 03, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Solano ‘new city’ development”; “part of the Solano ‘new city’ development”; “many Solano residents are excited about Mr. Sramek’s optimism”. It most often appears alongside California Forever, China, Honduras.
Metadata
- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: September 11, 2023
- Last seen: February 03, 2025
Appears In
Related Pages
-
- California Forever (2 shared issues)
-
- China (2 shared issues)
-
- Honduras (2 shared issues)
-
- Praxis (2 shared issues)
-
- Prospera (2 shared issues)
-
- San Francisco (2 shared issues)
-
- Saudi Arabia (2 shared issues)
-
- Suisun City (2 shared issues)
-
- Supreme Court (2 shared issues)
-
- 101 (1 shared issues)
-
- Aiman Al-Mudaifer (1 shared issues)
-
- ALUC (1 shared issues)
External Links
Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Original post: Model City Monday 9/4/23 Comments On The Solano County City Ecorche writes:
Inline links: Model City Monday 9/4/23, writes
Just because the city is founded by elites doesn’t mean it will be inhabited by them. Mark Zuckerberg is an elite, but that doesn’t mean Facebook is “a website for elites”. No elite wants to live in Solano County (unless it’s their summer ranch home or something). The natural demographic is people priced out of the Bay.
But wait! I can do better! I took the map of plots purchased from the NYTimes (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/business/economy/california-land-solano-county.html) and combined them with the Travis Air Force Base Sustainability Study (https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?blobid=36198 or page 41-42 here https://oldcc.gov/sites/default/files/mis-studies/Travis%20Air%20Force%20Base.pdf), to get a map of the overlap.
They had originally planned to fight NIMBYs in the November election via a ballot initiative which would give them the right to proceed. But after polls suggested they might lose, they instead struck an agreement with the county to delay two years and run through the usual set of environmental impact assessments. The County Supervisor wrote:
Inline links: polls suggested, wrote
I think it signals [project lead] Jan Sramek’s understanding that while the need for more affordable housing and good paying jobs has merit, the timing has been unrealistic. I want to acknowledge that many Solano residents are excited about Mr. Sramek’s optimism about a California that builds again. He is also right that we cannot solve our jobs, housing, and energy challenges if every project takes a decade or more to break ground.
But in the past few days, the situation has changed. Suisun City, a nearby small town, has announced that it is considering annexing the California Forever land. Since the project was previously blocked by laws restricting building on unincorporated land, getting annexed by a city - and maybe running their project under the Suisun City banner - would solve many of their problems. Suisun City is struggling financially, and it would make sense for them to offer legal protection in exchange for money. The city mayor sort of halfway-kind-of-denies that’s what she’s doing, but California Forever is unpopular among Suisun City voters - if the story were actually false, I would expect her to make stronger denials.
Inline links: it is considering annexing