https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/10/25/elias-california-forever-ballot-measure-couldve-been-hugely-influential/

A measure this fall letting Solano County voters approve — or not — a vast new development about 45 miles northeast of San Francisco just may have been the most influential local ballot proposition California has seen in decades, if it had gone forward.

This measure would have let a brand-new full-scale city be built by a corps of billionaires as a partial solution to the housing shortage that has wracked the state’s lifestyle and politics for years, threatening the nature of many neighborhoods and the independence of city governments. The billionaires pulled their proposition from the ballot at midsummer, though, because they thought it could lose.