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Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
If the city code prohibits this the city code needs to be edited!!! The state of California's daycare abundance law prohibits cities from imposing zoning requirements for the home care of 14 or fewer children, which the state declared a 'residential' use of space.
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Katherine Boyle
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I can’t imagine the horrors happening inside a private home school that violated Palo Alto city code. God forbid they were learning calculus. Pray for these children.
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Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
This is one of California's best laws and other states should imitate it! Declaring home care of children a 'residential' use of land stops municipalities and disgruntled neighbors from blocking home care centers, which make childcare affordable to far more families.
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Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
Because home microschools are a new (mostly post-Covid) phenomenon, cities are often unsure how to classify them, and the Zuckerbergs may need to register as a home care provider. But home private schools are LEGAL in the state of California.
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Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
I criticize our state government viciously enough that I owe it some credit when it gets things right, and the daycare abundance law is a fantastic piece of legislation - pro-family, pro-freedom, pro-density, pro-communities.
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Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
it sounds like the bureaucrats have been pointedly avoiding picking that fight, but really what they need to do is edit their city code to exempt home care of 14 or fewer children as required by the "Keeping Kids Close to Home Act"
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Dean
@SemiTgtPrince
People should know who these city officials are and when elections are held to vote them out of office
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Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
to be clear it sounds like the city officials did nothing wrong, though the NYT insinuates that they should shut down this awesome-sounding private school which harmed nobody
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Michael Davis-Wilson
@mdaviswilson
I think the catch here is that SB 234 applies to facilities where the care provider lives at the house in question, and it sounds like that was not the case.
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Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
oh yeah, when we did this it was an actual home-based microschool. if the Zuckerbergs were not themselves running it and actively on site most of the time they wouldn't qualify
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Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
Private schools are often the best option for a kid to get a good education and should be everywhere and competitively priced so not only the rich have that option.
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