If at first you don’t succeed in your plan to build a new city from scratch, try again with a pair of the state Capitol’s best known dealmakers of this century.
That’s essentially the new tactic a group of tech billionaires is using in its decade-long effort to turn an underdeveloped stretch of Solano County into a city the size of Cleveland, write CalMatters’ Kate Wolffe and Yue Stella Yu.
California Forever, the development group, is leaning on former Senate President Darrell Steinberg and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Hertzberg — both Democrats with records steeped in environmental law — to make their case as they seek expedited reviews of their plans in the Legislature…