Solano Speaks & Says NO!
REAL Solano residents submitting REAL statements
Read why Solano County residents are against California Forever / East Solano Plan
Solano County residents share their thoughts about California Forever, The East Bay Plan, and The East Solano Homes, Jobs, & Clean Energy Initiative and their proposed plan to ultimately add 400,000 residents to Solano County.
Keith Scally
Retired | 14 Years in Solano From the outset the reported “developers” have been underhanded in their approach to the project. This is a money…
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Paul Olson
Insurance | 25 Years in Solano This misconceived fever dream of these audacious and arrogant billionaires will cause a myriad of unintended consequences. Infrastructure will…
Edward Bondoc
USAF Retiree | 26 Years in Solano It hinders/downgrades/totally affects mission capability/training/readiness of the Travis AFB strategic airlift acfts on their peacetime and wartime role.…
Werner Buras
Retired | 52 Years in Solano Build that community would drastically compound traffic and pollut our way better quality air, compared to the Bay Area.…
Lynne McCartney
Retired | 48 Years in Solano Solano County services are already stretched thin. Water, electricity, medical services and facilities are all strained. Traffic is a…
Carlos Martinez
IT Professional | 36 Years in Solano Solano County does not need a new city. We don’t have enough water, power or the infrastructure for…
Kevin Smith
HVAC Service | 35 Years in Solano My biggest concerns are the water and impacts to the local wild life and fisheries. Our county has…
Patricia Skinner
Retired | 65 Years in Solano My main concern is Travis AFB, putting up solar panels will cause a problem for aircraft. Why buy the…
Ann Jones Smith
Retired | 18 Years in Solano The last thing we need is a new city. Especially a city that has tried to bypass all the…
Werner Buras
Retired Air Force and United Airlines | 52 Years in Solano We don’t need the added traffic congestion or the Bay Area air quality problems.…
Matthew Signes
Sales | 3 Years in Solano I am against progress and providing opportunities/jobs for people. I am also against using land for silly reasons like…
Elizabeth Inks
Warehouse | 25 Years in Solano Buying cheap land and then pressuring local government to re-zone should be illegal. I can’t buy a house as…
Karen Parrish
Retired | 45 Years in Solano I am against California Forever. There will be too many homes built and traffic congestion will be ridiculous.
Christine Huttinger
MFT | 20 Years in Solano I have lived on the Sacramento River for the past 20 years. I value the agricultural zoning and I…
Elisabeth Barnes
IHHS Worker | 51 Years Solano County I have seen Vacaville and the surrounding areas change in the last 50 years. Yes some growth is…
Barbara Huddleston
Retired | 52 Years in Solano Solano County residents are facing a housing affordability crisis due to rezoned land developments that have priced apartments and…
Finney Warren
Retired Military | 30 years in Solano I’m really against this project, coming from the East Coast I know what it’s like to be overcrowded.…
Elda Escobedo
Retired | 55 Years in Solano I vote NO for California Forever
Sabine Glueckler
Self employed | 11 Years in Solano Deception, strong arm tactics and zero transparency has bad news written all over it . No thank you
Vicki Hopkins
Retired/Education | 53 Years in Solano The whole plan was mysteriously secretive from the start so the lack of transparency on the part of the…
Brenton Thompson
Professional Actor | 30 Years in Solano It will cause to much traffic and the main reason is criminals and the homeless community will definitely…
David Bolig
Security Supervisor | 3 Years in Solano The California Forever city just looks way too crowded. There is a high likelihood something will touch off…
Brook Molinar
Electrical | 35 Years in Solano Water rights and long term environmental studies need to be assessed in a non based studio along with the…
Sophie Tramel
Retired Psychiatric Technician | 24 Years in Solano This whole project has filled me with dread and mistrust from the beginning. First, our elected officials…
Jason Buckingham
Attorney | 38 Years in Solano Absolutely no one in Solano County – precisely zero point zero people – asked for this proposal. The secrecy…
Steve Palmer
Retired | 35 Years in Solano Everyone keeps getting lost with all of the keys jangling trying to distract us but this is about our…
Adrienne Thomas
Special Education Teacher | 24 Years in Solano Please do not let this development in, it will bring with it traffic, crowding in our streets,…
Neli Sandoval
Health Assistant | 32 Years in Solano Terrible idea to build this town. We do not want it here!! It would cause traffic issues, congestion,…
Patty Preston
Senior Environment, Health, Safety Specialist | 45 Years in Solano I have lived in Solano County most of my adult life and have appreciated its…
Grover Wright
Retired City of Vaca Utilities Ops Mgr. | 49 Years in Solano I believe this project has ZERO REDEEMING features to it. It fails to…
Azonia Haney
Retired | 60 Years in Solano I am adamantly opposed to this development for so many reasons. Just one is enough: We don’t have the…
Judith Neima
Retired | 26 Years in Solano I haven’t believed in the Tooth Fairy or Easter Bunny or Santa Claus since I was 8 years old.…
Susan Imboden
Proud Nimby | 53 Years in Solano Here in Solano County we have chosen to limit our urban growth to the existing cities. Since 1984,…
Sarah Dempsey
Hospital Clerical | 47 Years in Solano County I was born and raised in Solano County. I’ve enjoyed living in other places, including Europe, but…
Teri Sugai
Retired | 36 Years in Solano I don’t believe any of the outrageous claims made by CF/ESP. Their methods are sneaky, underhanded and will end…
Katie Morris
SAHM | 27 Years in Solano Driving to San Francisco is absolutely disgusting. Homeless tents on all of the on/off ramps. Human feces on the…
Phil Strand
Retired Aquatic Biologist | 8 Years in Solano I live in Rio Vista, where my wife and I chose to retire 8 years ago. We…
Cilla Frias
Secretary | 49 Years in Solano County Born and raised in Fairfield. I oppose to California Forever. . We don’t want you here! Sounds like…
Carol & Bill Kumpu
Retired | 29 Years in Solano Very shady from the start. One of the biggest problems will be water, of course. Even in a good…
Kathy Marchesseault
Retired Secretary |34 Years in Solano CF used manipulative & misleading claims in their recent Travis AFB flyer. CF lied by stating this flyer had…
Mickey Schultz
Businesswoman | 68 Years in Solano County This must be stopped. Not even for us but for our children and grandchildren. Our local politicians have…
Frances Peterson
Retired State Analyst | 33 Years in Solano I was not in favor of this project in the first place. But after reading the initiative,…
Rebecca Van Dyne
Disabled | 43 Years in Solano I am 100% against California Forever. Just because they ran out of room in their Silicon Valley that doesn’t…
Brittany Wright
Student | 32 Years in Solano I grew up in Solano County and only took a short vacation from it during my time in the…
Michael Wells
Odd Job Specialist | 12 Years in Solano The ecosystem in the area will be irreparably harmed by this project. Water availability will become an…
D Green
Specialist | 25 Years in Solano I am very opposed to this terrible idea of some utopia being built in the middle of a very…
Marge Grow-Eppard
Spiritual Leader- Miwok Elder | 57 Years in Solano Solano County is Miwok, Patwin land… Native Americans are tired of colonized way of thinking about…
Marge Grow-Eppard
Spiritual Leader- Miwok Elder | 57 Years in Solano Solano County is Miwok, Patwin land… Native Americans are tired of colonized way of thinking about…
Glen Rodgers
Retired | 63 Years in Solano I was born at Travis in 1961. Except for time in the Military I have lived my entire life…
Elizabeth Zainasheff
Retired | 8 Years in Solano Hello, Like many Solan County residents, I am opposed to the California Forever project for a myriad of reasons…
Sheila Utz
Retired DOJ IT Supervisor | 6 Years in Solano Solano County dies not have enough water fir the existing population, let alone 4000,000 more people.…
Sandra Madonna
Retired Nurse Having raised 3 children in our wonderful little town of Vacaville; we have seen the growth of this town in the past 25…
Wendy Epps
Social Services | 41 Years in Solano California Forever will take away our precious farm land & water. The photo’s of the plan remind me…
Mae E
Independent Contractor | 4 Years in Solano Moved here from Richmond because of the scenery and sense of community. I vehemently oppose the East Solano…
Margaret Hargas, DC
Retired | 22 Years in Solano These wealthy individuals have never even lived in Solano County. After purchasing an extremely large portion of our land…
Susan Madonna
Retired | 22 Years in Solano I do not support the pet project of billionaires who want to create their own city in my county…
Sandra Madonna
Retired Nurse | 25 Years in Solano I have lived here 25 years and I’ve raised three children in Vacaville because I love that it…
Celina Hunter
Registered Nurse | 28 Years in Solano Flannery Associates are as shady as it gets. Let’s stand together and stop them from destroying our farms,…
Ashley Flores
Office Manager | 37 Years in Solano I have lived in Solano County my whole life. There’s a charm about knowing the long farming and…
Amy Montano
Disabled | 12 Years in Solano There are so many reasons to say no to Forever California: Changing our small community from 400,000 to 800,000…
Diyan D
Retired | 1 Year in Solano I moved to Rio Vista last year because of its rural location. Now these developers want to turn it…
Toni Taylor
Public Servant 41 Years in Solano My family and I immigrated to America and made Fairfield our home. I have lived in almost every town…
Alizabeth Krumenacker
Current SAHM/Former Teacher and Legal Secretary | 15 Years in Solano It started with deception. When federal authorities tried to determine who was behind Flannery…
Leslie Unverferth
Realtor | 15 Years in Solano I am a realtor in Solano County. I bought my first home in Dixon in 2009 because I wanted…
Margaret McComas
Retired | 5 Years in Solano Having lived in Los Angeles for many years, I hate the idea of having wall-to-wall cities here. I like…
Felicia DixonAdams
Retired | 18 Years in Solano The lack of transparency is enough for me. Where there’s smoke…
Janet Minix
Retired | 25 Years in Solano We’ve seen other proposals similar to this one in Silicon Valley. These people are about making money. I pray…
Stacey Lewis
Mom/Homemaker | 25 Years on Solano First, let’s do the math: There’s already roughly 450,000 people living in ALL of Solano County. If they are…
Julie Vasquez
Human Resources | 57 Years in Solano As a fourth generation Solano County resident, I oppose this proposed project. Our county’s infrastructure cannot support the…
Tina Arnold
Retired Corporate Trainer | 6 Years in Solano I am 100% opposed to the California Forever project. This kind of high-density project will bring the…
Deborah Morrison
Retired Resource Specialist | 36 Years in Solano I strongly oppose changing our county‘s existing orderly growth plan. This plan works and was designed to…
Sherry Brogan
Civil Service | 23 Years in Solano County Solano County cannot afford to pay anything toward this billionaire’s vanity project. Build your trial Utopia somewhere…
Gordon Hamlin
Retired US Air Force | 37 Years in Solano This is the wrong place for a city this size. Some of the major issues are…
Anna Kirsch
Artist and Civil Engineering Technician | 5 Years in Solano In a world that’s becoming hyper-urbanized, we must preserve and protect our undeveloped lands that…
Michael Hayes
Laborer | 51 Years in Solano I am opposed because the general public will pick up at least part of the cost for building the…
Kristina Rogstad
Special Ed Teacher | 24 Years in Solano I am against turning our beautiful precious farmland, home to endangered species, and valuable resources into a…
Lauren McFarland
45 Years in Solano We already have traffic congestion, lack of decent infrastructure, homeless, and adding to that would mean life in Solano county would…
Lauren McFarland
45 Years in Solano We already have traffic congestion, lack of decent infrastructure, homeless, and adding to that would mean life in Solano county would…
Teri Weida
Homemaker | 47 Years in Solano The land THEY purchased, was purchased as AG Land for a reason. NO to California Forever
Anita Sosa-Huerta
Eligibility Technician II | 24 Years in Solano I moved here away from San Joaquin county Stockton ca where I was born. I grew up…
Joni Bolland
Investments | 52 Years in Solano I am opposed to this development because Rio Vista is a small town and there isn’t adequate water for…
Candice Mason
Office Manager | 34 Years in Solano This is an update to my April comment: East Solano Sham is exactly that…I’m getting tired of being…
Joy Falk
Retired Animal Control Officer | 3 Years in Solano I worry about additional congestion on, already burdened, rural roads like Hwy. 12. Other infrastructure would…
Francine M
Retired | 50 Years in Solano They did not let their intentions be known. Strong armed people for their land, too close to Travis AFB.…
Deborah Froessel
Manager | 21 Years in Solano 1. Where are we going to get enough water to sustain this community especially with climate change snd drought,…
Linda Lake
Teacher | 21 Years in Solano Since 1984, the people of this county have continued to uphold the Orderly Growth Initiative. We do not want…
Jeremy Cantor
Retired | 34 Years in Solano Flannery Associates have already shown themselves to be thoroughly untrustworthy. There is no longer any reason to believe anything…
Elaine Cloutier
Business Owner | 20 Years in Solano County I moved to Solano County to escape the urban sprawl and expense of living in the Bay…
Leischen Nunez
EHS Manager | 5 Years in Solano County My statement of opposition is simple. I do not support bullying of any kind. Suing farmers and…
Julie Gomes
Julie Gomes | 51 Years in Solano I have resided in Solano County for over 50 years, coming from Redwood City to Vacaville in 1973.…
Kathy O’Hare
Artist | 15 Years in Solano I was on the fence about this project until I saw the video of Congressmen Garamendi and Thompson when…
Lynne T
Cosmetologist | 44 Years in Solano We cannot allow these Venture capitalists, and billionaires to come into our County to destroy and pave over every…
Barbara Huddleston
Retired | 62 Years in Solano This ideology is a project is full of inconsistent statements and blatant lies. Solano County has evolved over the…
Harriette Yaris
Retired Audit Manager | 30 Years in Solano I moved to Solano County in 1994 and found it a hidden gem from the rest of…
Janet Minix
Retired | 30 Years in Solano We moved to Solano County to get away from big city problems. Solano county isn’t perfect but it’s a…
Debra Reuter
Retired Teacher | 2 Years in Solano County I am opposed to California Forever for the following reasons: 1.Lack of transparency: Flannery Associates, began in…
Marla Christiansen-Kime
Retired Notary Public | 23 Years in Solano County Not good for the environment, doesn’t address hw 12 traffic. No new schools, no new fire…
Sharon Larson
Retired | 11 Years in Solano I’m against CF, because they hid who they were, obfuscated in their explanations, and are trying to sell a…
Charles S
IT | 26 Years in Solano County While it’s certainly possible the technical issues could be worked out (e.g., water, transportation), a massive part of…
Shirley Riedel
Registered Nurse | 13 Years in Solano 400,000 people added to our already overcrowded highway 80 and other roads, along with other problems, especially WATER,…
Ludean Mines
Retired | 48 Years in Solano Opposed to elitist billionaire clubs
Thomas Gedvilas
Retired Air Force and Civil Service | 58 Years in Solano I don’t want Solano County and particularly Fairfield turned into a metropolis
Tanya Hannebohn
Property Manager | 25 Years in Solano I have lived here for 25 years. I love it here and I really don’t want our area…
Grant Fisk
Disabled/Retired/Veteran | 11 Years in Solano I have only been a Solano resident for 11 years but, I have been a Delta Resident my whole…
William Mortimore
Retired | 30 Years in Solano I moved to Rio Vista to be closer to Family. I realized that there were no box stores, Walmart’s,…
Amber Fingland
Teacher | 20 Years in Solano This whole thing is shady beyond belief disgusting . What are they trying to hide from if they need…
Sharon Fisher
Retired | 60 years in Solano Go away. Leave our county in it’s natural state. You are not wanted in Solano County.
Frances Cummings
Retired | 71 years in Solano The Birds Landing/Collinsville area was my heaven for 12 years and I still consider it home to me. This…
Gregory Castillo
Chiropractor | 7 years in Solano County Traffic will be a disaster, Highway 12 will not be passable, added traffic to highway 80 will be…
Jeanette Williams
Retired RN | 65 Years in Solano County I was born and raised in Rio Vista and I strongly disagree with the plan to turn…
Paulette J Kolm
Real Estate Broker DRE#01396000 | 28 Years in Solano I don’t want Travis Air Force Base compromised…their plan is too dense…they have no infrastructure so…
Michelle Burke
Childcare Provider | 25 Years in Solano County I am against the building of “ California Forever “. I do not think we have the…
Ashley Flores
Small Business Owner | 37 Years in Solano County Our agricultural and generational farms land should not be used for development. Further development will raise…
Leslee Prahl
Retired | 20 Years in Solano County I am opposed to California Forever. They have not been open about their project. They seem to want…
Anne Griffin
Retired Teacher | 41 Years in Solano County My husband and I have lived in Solano County since 1983. We have raised our 4 children…
Candice Mason
Office Manager | 31 Years in Solano My opposition comes from their initial plan and marketing. Their entire sell is a bunch of promises they…
Loris Shaft
Engineer | 63 Years in Solano Water resources, keeping the development unincorporated shifting the infrastructure cost to the County at large, including roads, schools, administration,…
Martha Bolig
Retired LEO | 3 Years on Solano I’m opposed to CF because of the adverse effects their project would have on our quality of life…
Diane Broglio
Homemaker / Former Deputy Clerk | 38 Years in Solano County CA4EVR has been unresponsive on social media and untruthful when it comes to reporting…
William Harris
Retired Retail Grocery Clerk |34 Years in Solano Be sure to stress highway 12 land will be “donated” for widening but tax payers will pay…
Karen Eskandari
Business Owner | 11 Years in Solano CF secretly bought up farms that our country desperately needs for survival and it letting them rot, along…
Briawna Sims
Financial Representative | Years in Solano 1 My husband’s dream was to live in solano county. We’re finally here and it’s perfect for us and…
Roxanne Stiles-Donnelly
Retired Nurse Practitioner | 38 Years in Solano I oppose amending the Solano County general plan that would rezone 17,500 acres for the Ca Forever…
Cheryl Noutary
Retired | 46 Years in Solano I am against California Forever! We do not need more cars or people, when we don’t have the infrastructure…
Beth Brockhouse
Retired | 16 Years in Solano CF would convert this beautiful grazing land and vernal pool wildlife habitat to industrial blight and urban sprawl. It…
Joyce Eversole
Retired | 36 Years in Solano Daddy won’t sell the farm. This whole thing has been secretive and sketchy from…
Susan Swensson
Retired | 68 Years in Solano Water conservation is our most important resource. Those lands were meant to be conserved and observed. That area will…
Hale Veronica
Retired | 35 Years in Solano Against overbuilding overcrowding and underfunded city.
Amanda Millett
Educator| 52 Years in Solano The proposed California Forever project is not for Solano County. There is no consideration for our county or our way…
Debra Casey
Retired | 42 Years in Solano I don’t want a new town in our County!
Kristina Rogstad
Special Ed Teacher | 42 Years in Solano The Solano Forever housing plan is not right for the area chosen along hwy 12. It will…
Alexis Uribe
42 Years in Solano Well here we are, progression doesn’t look as good as those who said it would long before this pimple popped up…
Ken Green
Retired | 72 years in Solano Two words sum up this fraudulent proposal: “Sprawl” and “Gridlock.” Actually there’s a few other words – shady profits…
Glen Nichols
Retired | 60 Years n Solano Lack of transparency would be it for me!
Sarah K
Registered Nurse | 35 Years in Solano I oppose the building of a new city, California Forever, due to the imposition it will have on…
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