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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

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Post by UltraSane »

googlryas wrote: post #30
lateforwork wrote: post #5

Earlier 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…

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"

Doctors and lawyers are extremely regular people.

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Post by bnchrch »

randycupertino wrote: post #8
carodgers wrote: post #4

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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 yo…

Zoning on average is a blight.

Industrial / High Rise is the only thing that should need permitting.

Fourplex / Duplex / Single Family / Small Offices / Schools should not.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted

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Post by kcplate »

bonestamp2 wrote: post #22
lateforwork wrote: post #5

Earlier 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…

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.

If I am visiting with my mother in law, I would consider the host very gracious and attentive to all the needs of his guests.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted

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Post by happytoexplain »

jameslk wrote: post #23

Zuck vs Bay Area NIMBYs… this is going to be a tough one to pick a side on

It's OK to care about what's going on around your home and in your community. "NIMBY" is usually meant to imply that they are being unreasonable in their complaints.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted

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Post by DANmode »

dmix wrote: post #15

> For almost a decade, the Zuckerbergs’ neighbors have been complaining to the city about noisy construction work, the intrusive presence of private security, and the hordes of staffers and business associates causing traffic and taking up street parking. Sounds like a normal day in the city

Not my city.

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Post by xmprt »

googlryas wrote: post #45
16bytes wrote: post #36

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Doctors, lawyers, business executives are closer to "regular people" than those people are to billionaires.

Okay, but it doesn't mean they're regular people. Owning a single one of those plots out them in the 1% of household net worth, even if they had 0 other assets.

Ok but what does that contribute to the conversation? I think a good enough definition for regular people is if the average person can achieve that title with talent and hard work more than luck (not that luck doesn't also play a major factor). Whereas becoming a billionaire has a lot more to do with luck than hard work (even though hard work still plays a factor).

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Post by DANmode »

kcplate wrote: post #54
bonestamp2 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If I am visiting with my mother in law, I would consider the host very gracious and attentive to all the needs of his guests.

Do you do this a lot?

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Post by zachthewf »

andsoitis wrote: post #40
akd wrote: post #28

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ROFL. The neighbors are not "regular people" for any reasonable definition of that term.

> ROFL. The neighbors are not "regular people" for any reasonable definition of that term. why do you say that?

Decamillionaires complaining about billionaires. A story as old as time...

Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted

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Post by JuniperMesos »

jjulius wrote: post #27
renewiltord wrote: post #19

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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.

I've lived in the bay area my entire life this is an accurate picture.
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