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Rural California Cheers as Plan for Utopian Tech City Hits the Skids

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A major development backed by a who’s who of Silicon Valley power brokers was shelved Monday for at least two years—part of a supposed bid to study its environmental impact.

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A parcel of land recently purchased by Flannery Associates near Rio Vista, California—part of a stealth campaign by Silicon Valley elites with a dream of turning a swath of California farmland into a new age city.
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