Locals push back against plans to build a tech utopia in Solano County, Calif.

For years, a secretive group has been purchasing land in Solano County, Calif., to create a utopian city for the tech elite. Locals are telling the techies to take their plan someplace else.

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:

For the past five years, a shadowy group flush with cash has been gobbling up property in a rural county between Sacramento and San Francisco. NPR’s Bobby Allyn looks at how they’ve been stirring up drama and division.

BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE: Retired cattle rancher Kathy Threlfall lives on a small family farm in east Solano County, and she kept hearing about the hundreds of

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