No Coding in Palo Alto? City Takes On Silicon Valley Growth (siliconbeat.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @08:10AM from the big-questions dept.

An anonymous reader writes:The birthplace of Hewlett Packard and Xerox Parc and founding place of Facebook is now considering whether to enforce a zoning regulation banning firms whose "primary business is research and development, including software coding," according to the New York Times. As the Times wrote, "To repeat: The mayor is considering enforcing a ban on coding at ground zero of Silicon Valley." Palo Alto Mayor Patrick Burt told the Times: Big tech companies are choking off the downtown. It's 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 Ford's research and development center.

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Re:Lol by Miguelito · 2016-08-31 08:50 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Did you ever hear a greenie complain about people using a bus? Well, go to SF.
They're doing it wrong though. The companies are running their own busses, not growing the gov't run system and keeping the power in the hands of the "right" people.

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Re:Wow, Commiefornia! by balbeir · 2016-08-31 08:55 · Score: 0, Flamebait

That said, it's a perfect demonstration of why you want government to have as little power as possible.
Yes, because I would just love to have my neighbor turn his house into a car body shop ;-) Zoning regulations are for sissy liberals who value communist ideas like quality of life.