An initiative supported by Silicon Valley to construct a sustainable city for up to 400,000 residents in the San Francisco Bay Area has officially qualified for the Nov. 5 ballot, as confirmed by elections officials on Tuesday. Solano County's registrar of voters announced that a sufficient number of signatures had been verified, with California Forever, the organization spearheading the project, submitting well over the required 13,000 valid signatures.
The registrar is set to present the signature count results to the county Board of Supervisors in two weeks, following which the board may commission an impact assessment report. The proposed development would entail urbanizing 27 square miles of land between Travis Air Force Base and Rio Vista, currently designated for agricultural use.
