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East Palo Alto takes no action on Facebook

Original post made on Jan 11, 2012

Although the East Palo Alto City Council met in closed session on Thursday, Jan. 5, to discuss whether to sue over the environmental impact report for Facebook's planned campus expansion in Menlo Park, the meeting adjourned with no action taken.

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Posted by guest
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jan 11, 2012 at 6:48 am

EPA shakedown of a deep pocket, pure and simple. The site was home to legions of employees of another company, Sun Microsystems, for a long time before Facebook.

Shame!

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Posted by impact
a resident of Downtown North
on Jan 11, 2012 at 11:04 am

Facebook is planning on 3 times as many employees as Sun at its peak. Asking for a contribution towards improving the infrastructure around the campus is just common sense.

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