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New York Times Report Spurs Scrutiny of Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto Compound

Heightened reporting prompted an official review of decades of piecemeal permits after staff shut down an unlicensed homeschool pod in Crescent Park.

Overview

  • Mark Zuckerberg acquired at least 11 adjacent Crescent Park homes since 2011, investing over $110 million to establish a unified private compound.
  • The compound includes guest houses, gardens, a pickleball court, a pool with a retractable hydrofloor and roughly 7,000 square feet of subterranean space.
  • Neighbors have endured eight years of construction noise, blocked driveways and surveillance cameras trained on nearby yards.
  • City planning staff recently closed an unpermitted homeschool pod operating on one of the properties, citing zoning violations.
  • A Meta spokesperson defended the measures as exceeding local requirements, citing security needs and steps taken to minimize neighborhood disruption.