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Facebook CEO, Amnesty Enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg Is a Terrible Neighbor

$10M 'fixer-upper' has been taking up street parking for 17 months

Mark Zuckerberg / AP
September 22, 2014

The construction of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's $10 million house has begun to infringe on his neighborhood's peace and quiet, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Zuckerberg's Dolores Heights, Calif., "fixer-upper" is surrounded by "no parking" signs that have kept residents from parking outside their own homes for the past 17 months.

The Chronicle reports:

Dozens of construction workers, using backhoes and jackhammers, are busy installing everything from a new kitchen to bathrooms and decks — and tearing up the sidewalks for new fiber-optic cables that will connect to the home.

And it’s all being overseen by round-the-clock security.

"This is nothing short of a fortress," said one homeowner, who asked not to be named to avoid a public kerfuffle with the new Facebook neighbors.

Assessor’s records show that contractors for Zuckerberg and his wife, UCSF physician Priscilla Chan, have taken out no fewer than 10 permits for millions of dollars in construction work to the 1920s-era home — located just a block and a half from hipster central Dolores Park.

One permit lists a $65,000 remodel of the kitchen and six bathrooms — a figure that appeared to be so small that one real estate agent called it "a joke."

Other permits:
•$720,000 for an office, media room, half bathroom, mudroom, laundry room, wine room and wet bar, plus a new second-floor half bathroom and remodel of the second, third and fourth floors.
•$750,000 for an addition to the rear and side of the house, reconfigured landscaping and window restoration work.
•$25,000 to make the fourth floor legally "habitable," add a bathroom and turn part of the roof into a deck.

There’s also a new basement garage, complete with a turntable pad so cars can get in and out more easily. One neighbor privately complained to us about the steady noise and hassle getting out of a driveway. Another said the problems are real, but that "it’s hard to talk about it without sounding whiny or like the wealthy need to be punished just because they have money."