{"id":269806,"date":"2025-11-07T23:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/269806\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:14:10","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-illegal-school-drove-his-neighbors-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/269806\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s illegal school drove his neighbors crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox said that the Zuckerbergs instituted \u201ca revised parking policy late last year\u201d that should address their concerns, and promised to double down on efforts to give advanced notice about construction, parties, and other potential disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>However, Fox did not directly address the unpermitted school and other nonresidential activities happening at the compound. She acknowledged that the compound has \u201cresidential support staff\u201d including \u201cchildcare, culinary, personal assistants, property management, and security,\u201d but said that they have \u201cpolicies in place to minimize their impact on the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if the neighbor responded to Fox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have not earned our trust\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While these conversations were happening between Fox and Zuckerberg\u2019s neighbors, Lait and others at the city Planning Department were scrambling to find a solution for the neighbor who complained on September 11, and a few other neighbors who endorsed the complaint in September and February.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in February, one of these neighbors took the lead on following up with Lait. They asked him for an update on February 11, and heard back a few days later. He didn\u2019t have any major updates, \u201cbut after conversations with the family\u2019s representatives, he said he was exploring whether a \u201csubset of children\u201d could continue to come to the school sometimes for \u201cancillary\u201d uses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also believe a more nuanced solution is warranted in this case,\u201d Lait added. Ideally, such a solution would respond to the neighbors\u2019 complaints, but allow the Zuckerbergs to \u201creasonably be authorized by the zoning code.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The neighbor wasn\u2019t thrilled. The next day, they replied and called the city\u2019s plan \u201cunsatisfactory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city\u2019s \u2018nuanced solution\u2019 in dealing with this serial violator has led to the current predicament,\u201d they said (referring to the nuanced solution Lait mentioned in his last email.)<\/p>\n<p>Horrigan-Taylor, the Palo Alto spokesperson, told WIRED that Lait\u2019s mention of a \u201cnuanced\u201d solution referred to \u201cresolving, to the extent permissible by law, neighborhood impacts and otherwise permitted use established by state law and local zoning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox said that the Zuckerbergs instituted \u201ca revised parking policy late last year\u201d that should address their concerns,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-269806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}