Board rejects Zuckerberg's plans for Palo Alto homes

Excellent!

Now if Menlo Park would put some brakes on all the FaceBook expansion we'd really be thrilled.

If Mark wants privacy, he should buy in Atherton, Woodside, or Portola Valley. They have large lots and much looser design requirements as neighbors are farther apart.

I don't understand why he chose to buy in a denser neighborhood, then try to retrofit a sprawling compound onto it.

Now there's a name from recent and unfortunate history that I had almost forgotten...former Atherton city attorney Wynn Furth.

When current mayor Elizabeth Lewis' neighbors complained that she built a home that was objectively in violation of the code by being too close to property lines in multiple sides of the lot, Furth wrote a dodgy opinion that let Lewis slide.

But now that Zuckerberg wants to build in her neighborhood in ways that don't per say violate the code, she's finding subjective reasons to deny based on the character of how Zuckerberg would use these buildings.

Glad she's no longer here.

Furth? - MZ and Furth don't live in the same neighborhood.

There is nothing in the city code that prohibits neighboring properties from having gates between those properties.


Build each of the four properties as individual homes and put in connecting gates.

The city never has and cannot control whether or not a home is occupied at any given time.