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SAN FRANCISCO -- The company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires that for years stealthily snapped up more than $800 million worth of rural land for a new walkable, affordable and green city between San Francisco and Sacramento now needs voters to embrace the idea.

Nearly every step from the company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has met resistance, and California Forever has responded by picking fights.

RIO VISTA, Calif. — When Jan Sramek walked into the American Legion post in Rio Vista, California, for a town hall meeting last month, everyone in the room knew that he was really just there to get yelled at. For six years a mysterious company called Flannery Associates, which Sramek controlled, had upended the town of 10,000 by spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to buy every farm in the area. Flannery made multimillionaires out of some owners and sparked feuds among others. ...

Nearly every step from the company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has met resistance, and California Forever has responded by picking fights.

Nearly every step from the company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has met resistance, and California Forever has responded by picking fights.

Nearly every step from the company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has met resistance, and California Forever has responded by picking fights.

At its silicon heart it is a tool made by humans – one that should be carefully regulated, but that is unlikely either to doom us or to save us

After years of secretly snapping up property for plans to build a new California city, a company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires is taking the pitch to voters. The California

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires that for years stealthily snapped up more than $800 million worth of rural land for a n