There’s another plan for a tech utopia in California — this time in Wine Country
Months after a coalition of billionaires hit pause on its plans to build a walkable city in rural Solano County, another tech-centric group is moving forward on its dream to create their own community near Wine Country. The proposed enclave, called “Esmeralda,” would spread across 267 acres just southeast of Cloverdale in Sonoma County. Though the site is now a vast tangle of oak-studded grassland by Highway 101, industrial yards and a municipal airport, Esmeralda’s developers envision it as a future tech utopia with the look of a rustic Italian village. Their still-gestating plan provoked excitement — and suspicion — online and off.
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