Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer razes three Bay Area townhouses for backyard pool (Palo Alto: swimming pool)

[Tulemutt]

ROFLMBO … you can’t make this stuff up … in the land of bizarre excess, the bizarros excel:

After a year of back-and-forth, Silicon Valley tech executive Marissa Mayer has finally demolished three townhouses she bought next to her Palo Alto home to install a backyard pool.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/artic...l-17238746.php

[sav858]

I saw that, this was my favorite part:

"After a closer examination of the rules, staff found that in fact the demolition was permissible as proposed and therefore allowed to proceed," Palo Alto city spokesperson Meghan Horrigan-Taylor told the Business Journal in an email.

That said, Horrigan-Taylor explained to the Business Journal, the rules that let the demolition go through for Mayer changed at the start of 2022 — and anyone who would want to do a similar demolition would likely not get that approved by the city of Palo Alto.

Oh ok well that explains it and makes total sense....

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by sav858

I saw that, this was my favorite part:

"After a closer examination of the rules, staff found that in fact the demolition was permissible as proposed and therefore allowed to proceed," Palo Alto city spokesperson Meghan Horrigan-Taylor told the Business Journal in an email.

That said, Horrigan-Taylor explained to the Business Journal, the rules that let the demolition go through for Mayer changed at the start of 2022 — and anyone who would want to do a similar demolition would likely not get that approved by the city of Palo Alto.

Oh ok well that explains it and makes total sense....

Lol … no kidding

[tikkasf]

Oh, she is having a ......public swimming pool built.....