I hope the people of Cloverdale give this an appropriately skeptical eye: https://www.kqed.org/news/12059557/esmeralda-courts-locals-as-it-tries-to-learn-from-california-forevers-mistakes
The project lead has no history in land development. Just another self-styled tech radical riding the wave gold rushes who once wrote about holding heterodox views on minimum wage and gun safety; lead the charge to create GitHub Sponsors, a method by which MS profits off transactions primarily between open source maintainers; boosted cryptocurrency; and collab'd with a16z.