Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
#2My favorite Mark Zuckerberg neighbor anecdote is the guy who is surrounded on 3 sides by all properties Zuckerberg snatched up however has refused multiple offers by Zuckerberg's "people:"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/mark-zuckerberg-palo-a...
Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
#3My favorite Mark Zuckerberg neighbor anecdote is the guy who is surrounded on 3 sides by all properties Zuckerberg snatched up however has refused multiple offers by Zuckerberg's "people:" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/mark-zuckerberg-palo-a...
Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
#5My favorite Mark Zuckerberg neighbor anecdote is the guy who is surrounded on 3 sides by all properties Zuckerberg snatched up however has refused multiple offers by Zuckerberg's "people:" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/mark-zuckerberg-palo-a...
My favorite part of that story:
He said a security guard approached him and asked what he was doing.
“I said, ‘I’m standing on the sidewalk looking at this project for review.’ He said, ‘Well, we’d appreciate it if you could move on,’” Mr. Baltay recalled. “I was pretty shocked by that. It’s a public sidewalk!”
Zuckerberg could have built a fancy house in Woodside or Atherton which is where billionaire CEOs live. Instead he bought property in the middle of regular people and disrupted their lives.
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Imagine being so sure you can do whatever TF you want that you ignore the law and build a school where one is not allowed to be built.
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I think it's more that he disregarded residential zoning and opened a school for 30 kids, with a full docket of “residential support staff” including “childcare, culinary, personal assistants, property management, and security" without any permits.
If your next door neighbor opened a 30+ person school or other large business next to your property without any permits and against what your neighborhood was zoned for you might not be happy.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine being so sure you can do whatever TF you want that you ignore the law and build a school where one is not allowed to be built.
How does this hurt you if your kids don't go there?
Kids will slam car doors at dropoff/pickup. It's pretty annoying. I used to live around the corner from a school and parents would use our street for it. They can also cause unexpected heavy traffic if they have some special event.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine being so sure you can do whatever TF you want that you ignore the law and build a school where one is not allowed to be built.
How does this hurt you if your kids don't go there?
It doesn't hurt me personally but the article opens with the sentence "Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge."