To hear Sasha Zbrozek tell it, the story behind his plans to tear down his four-bedroom house in tony Los Altos Hills and replace it with an apartment complex is a simple tale of a young man’s California dream home being ruined by the region’s notorious red tape — and his decision to “rage against the machine.”
Just how might Zbrozek, a 34-year-old electrical engineer and Stanford grad, get away with his proposal to build 15 apartments and five townhomes in the wooded Silicon Valley suburb that’s long resisted multifamily housing?
Enter the “builder’s remedy,” a provision in state housing law that could allow property owners to override local zoning