‘Walk-able & green’ techno-Utopia cities are the future. But the naysayers are busy . .

The ‘California Forever’ project spearheaded by billionaires is truly inspiring and could point the way to the future. This week they announced they’ve now got the 50,000 acres of land they need.

The idea — in this program and other realistic ‘green techno-Utopias’ as I imagine them — is to create new affordable cities with multiple centres and a mix of high density living and rural so that on many occasions people can ‘walk to work’ and amenities.

And yet be close to the countryside. Inhabitants would use free robo-mini-buses and robo-taxis. And EVs when really needed of course.

Efficiency comes from a combination of good design, dense urban living and being out of LA and San Francisco in this case, but close simultaneously to jobs, schools, amenities and the tantalizing countryside.

These places will be more like a web of connected villages with gaps filled in by countryside.

But in the case of the Flannery Group’s Jan Sramek’s ‘California Forever’ project, local politicians are suspicious and looking for reasons to stop them. Probably because it’s run by rich guys. Former Sequoia Capital Chairman Mike Moritz is backing the project

They fear loss of agricultural land. But California is still growing so would grow anyway. And 53,000 acres is not huge — for a green city — and it will include countryside, high density market gardens and solar energy farms, enough to power the entire surrounding county in fact.

I truly think the naysayers are at their usual job of just complaining.

As usual, I find all of this a complete no brainer.

Contrary to the naysayers. Why would anyone want to live any other way? The convenience and culture of metro and the lifestyle of countryside. A best of both worlds.

At the very least it will be how some people want to live.

Why get in their way?

By very design it’s half countryside.