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Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
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#22My 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. Ins…
I assume he's planning to build a super mansion once he gets enough acreage.
Reminds me of a guy near me who bought three already massive adjacent properties. Tore down two of them. One become a pond. The other one was rebuilt into a massive $30M mansion. The third was already a $15M mansion so he kept that as his guest house. The funny thing is that his guest house... has a guest house.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
#23Zuck vs Bay Area NIMBYs… this is going to be a tough one to pick a side on
Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
#24Earlier 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?
Seriously? Beyond the unaccounted safety and traffic situation, you've obviously never lived next to a school. Kids are loud AF!
I lived right behind an elementary school (playgound was kitty-corner to my fence) two houses ago. During recess and lunch time, the kids were so loud I had to shout to hear people next to me inside my house.
...but forget all that: What you're advocating for is lawlessness. If you don't like the law, lobby to change it! Don't just violate it and screw over your neighbors in the mean time.
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Nobody made a school illegal. Schools have to meet certain standards, whether educational or planning.
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#26Earlier 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?
When billionaires break the law, we all suffer. I'll let you try to figure out why. you seem like a smart chap.
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This isn't an accurate picture of the Bay Area I just left after residing in for five years. It's almost like you're only familiar with one corner of it.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. Ins…
>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. it is easier and safer to have illegal school and other unpermitted things and all the noise and street blocking and all the other disruptions where regular people live than to piss off a billionaire neighbor.
ROFL. The neighbors are not "regular people" for any reasonable definition of that term.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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."
Sounds like a lot of the problem was caused by cars, which shouldn't be necessary for a school, ideally.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
#30My 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. Ins…
He purchased each plot for between $5 and $15M. The article describes the residents as "Doctors, lawyers, business executives and Stanford University professors".
I would not call these "regular people"