After stirring controversy and anger with a proposal for a “utopian” stand-alone city in Solano County, the group California Forever is back with another controversial proposal.

This time, the group’s vision is to build a new city by expanding Suisun City, one of the county’s smallest cities.

California Forever submitted the new plan this week. It includes what they’re calling America’s largest manufacturing park, a shipyard, thousands of new jobs and walkable neighborhoods with over 175,000 homes.

Suisun’s City Manager Bret Prebula believes the proposal could help solve longstanding concerns in the town.

“My job as the city manager, my team’s job and frankly the city council’s job is to ensure that we hold the developer accountable to our process, to our core values of what we need this project to be to our city” said Prebula.

California Forever CEO declined to comment but posted extensive details on X, calling this a plan of a small city taking on big challenges. Unlike the 2024 version that was pulled from the Solano County ballot, this plan would go through Suisun City Council, not the county.

The plan is already sparking mixed opinions.

“They are going to take these towns and they are going to run all of the small businesses out of town and they are going to bring in big corporations,” said Charlene Spinner of Rio Vista.

“My thing is, I just don’t want it to be for purposes that are not going to affect the whole community. Fairfield, Suisun these areas have issues and issues that need to be taken care of,” said Thomas Hightower of Suisun City.

Critics like Solano Together say this version isn’t much different than a plan the county rejected before.

“It’s just bizarre to me that Suisun thinks that this is going to be their saving salvation when the county thought it was going to be really, really bad news,” said Duane Kromm with Solano Together. Duane was also a former Solano County Supervisor.

Kromm’s biggest concerns are the proximity to Travis Air Force Base and impacts on farmland.

“It’s a set of dominos that can start falling when you start undermining, take out the underpinnings of the agricultural economy,” said Kromm.

A city council vote on annexation could come as early as 2027.