Mayor Hell-Bent on Stopping Tech Billionaires’ Utopian City Plan

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Mayor Hell-Bent on Stopping Tech Billionaires’ Utopian City Plan
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She is meeting with a congressman and other officials to come up with a “defense” to the sketchy proposal for a new California city.

On Friday, Fairfield Mayor Catherine Moy will meet with U.S. Rep. John Garamendi and two members of the Solano County Board of Supervisors to formulate what she terms “a plan for defense” the secretive investors who spent more than $800 million buying up 55,000 acres on which to build their alternative to San Francisco.

“The one thing that I'll say Flannery has done is they brought us together,” Moy told The Daily Beast on Thursday, explaining that 95 percent of the hundreds of messages she has received are against the project. Moy first heard of Flannery four years ago, when she was still a city council member. A farmer called and told her, “We’ve got a problem out here.”“That doesn’t seem like a problem,” Moy told him.Moy started digging and discovered that thousands of acres were being purchased by Flannery, which was registered in Delaware, where investors can form a partnership without putting their names on any public documents. She dug deeper and came across the name Jan Sramek in some papers.

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