the thing is California Forever already wasn't that ambitious to begin with. "a medium-dense city with high walkability with less crime and cleaner than SF" is kinda... boring. a startup city should stimulate your imagination, should try some weird new idea what a city could be, but this was just a safe real estate project (the risky thing was just overcoming regulation and local resistance, on which they ultimately failed)

Neat. The article/title makes it seem like they've cancelled their city plans, but it seems like this is just a first step and they're still interested in the city. The California Forever blog post, https://californiaforever.com/california-forever-unveils-the..., even makes reference to it. Sane move to build out job opportunities before/alongside other plans.

Though here's a weird snippet from the California Forever blog

> Five miles northeast, Travis Airforce Base—the largest Air Mobility Command base in America—offers significant opportunities for collaboration with our military, as well as a robust talent pool of highly-qualified retirees and spouses to work in advanced manufacturing roles

Retirees? In the talent pool?