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Palo Alto Board Rejects Zuckerberg’s Proposal To Tear Down Homes
CBS SAN FRANCISCO ^
| 16 SEPTEMBER 2016
| CBS SF
Posted on 09/17/2016 5:19:09 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
PALO ALTO (CBS SF) Members of Palo Altos Architectural Review Board are saying no to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckebergs plan to tear down neighboring homes he spent $30 million on.
Zuckerberg wanted to bulldoze the four homes around his residence in the Crescent Park neighborhood, replacing them with smaller properties.
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Wait, he bought the property and can’t tear down the structures. What?
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posted on
09/17/2016 5:20:55 PM PDT
by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"Its now up to the citys planning director to decide whether to let Zuckerberg carry out the plans for the property."
Next weeks headline: Former City Planning Director buys his own Island in the Caribbean
To: FreedomStar3028
“Wait, he bought the property and cant tear down the structures. What?”
He can’t tear them down and build the structures he wants to.
To: FreedomStar3028
Planning departments do this throughout California.
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posted on
09/17/2016 5:27:43 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Hillary Clinton AKA The Potemkin Princess of the Potomac)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Good! Let Zuckerburg build his empire and home in Detroit or Iraq.
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posted on
09/17/2016 5:28:43 PM PDT
by
tennmountainman
("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
He’ll be moving to Uruguay after Trump wins anyhow.
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posted on
09/17/2016 5:28:54 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
He wants to turn four residential homes into half-sized cabanas for visiting friends, and the zoning board ruled that that violates the neighborhood plan.
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posted on
09/17/2016 5:30:26 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
If he owns the property and isn’t making a dangerous situation he would seem to have the right. Well, he would of in the America I loved.
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posted on
09/17/2016 5:41:03 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
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posted on
09/17/2016 5:41:51 PM PDT
by
gunnut
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Pretty funny. Bill Gates just recently finished buying all the houses in a neighborhood not far from me (Wellington, FL). Word is he's just going to tear them down so his daughter can ride her horses there. Steve Job's widow just bought the ranch adjacent to Gates' property.
I hope Zuckerberg doesn't move down here.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Pay to play Zuck face .... you should know that by now!
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posted on
09/17/2016 5:51:38 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Zuckerberg could probably buy half of Brownsville and still have billions left over.And I'll bet their planning board would let him do whatever he wanted with that property.It would be a hoot to see what he'd do with regard to security.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
That’s Kalefornicacia for ya!
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posted on
09/17/2016 6:05:03 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
In a related story, the Palo Alto Review Board members, sudden & surprising Identity Theft, have renamed the board members, Larry, Moe & Jack.
The board’s Utilities have been shut down by way of automatic meter. Their bank accounts have been voided.
The board members are all currently homeless.
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posted on
09/17/2016 6:38:50 PM PDT
by
TheNext
(Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
To: FreedomStar3028
He wants a wall. Of smaller houses with whoknowswhat underneath.
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posted on
09/17/2016 6:40:58 PM PDT
by
combat_boots
(MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
They should take the properties using eminent domain and put 1000 Syrian refugees there
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posted on
09/17/2016 7:04:23 PM PDT
by
eyeamok
(destruction of government records.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; All
Palo Alto has been too successful and is paying a terrible price for that. The toothpaste is all squeezed out of the tube and ain't going back in. A few decades ago it was a nice upper middle-class town. Now it is insanely successful and you have to be a gazillionaire to buy there. But plenty of wealthy young families with a couple of toddlers move there all the time. Most of them pay all cash and are immune to the next tech bust (other than coughing up the $30k in annual property taxes).
Last month the city, the birthplace of Hewlett Packard and Xerox Parc and founding place of Facebook, began considering whether to enforce a zoning regulation banning firms whose primary business is research and development, including software coding.
Palo Alto Mayor Patrick Burt told the (New York) Times:
Big tech companies are choking off the downtown. Its not healthy. Palo Alto is a software capital. It has also become a company town, with Palantir Technologies renting 20 downtown buildings, as Marisa Kendall wrote.
Other notable tech firms there include Tesla, SAP, Flipboard, VMware and many others. It has become a center for automation and cars and is home to Fords research and development center.
Some of these firms are in the outer regions of the city and presumably wouldnt be affected by the zoning regulation, which appears to be directed to the downtown.
For many of the 66,000 residents of Palo Alto, all this coding and innovation may be a bit too much.
Already the city has been under pressure to increase its housing. A planning commissioner recently resigned in part out of frustration with the citys anti-growth politics.
To: FreedomStar3028
It’s California. If you have money, then you have to give a lot of it to some mitigation task force or social justice group before you get your plans approved. Typically at a 1:1 rate of donation to cost of project.
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posted on
09/17/2016 7:38:49 PM PDT
by
Shanghai Dan
(I ride a GS scooter with my hair cut neat...)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I can hear it now, a reprise of John Kerry’s famous question! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?
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posted on
09/17/2016 8:10:38 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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