Sunnyvale Developer on Hunger Strike to Protest City Building, Permitting Rules

A home developer in Sunnyvale is refusing to eat as a protest of city building and permitting rules.

Navneet Aron, founder and CEO of Aron Developers has spent the past eight days inside the city hall lobby on what he calls “a hunger strike until death — if necessary”. 

He’s demanding the city give him the green light to continue his construction project.

“It is an ongoing challenge how inefficient the processes are in every city and every county,” he said. 

He’s been a developer for 10 years and most recently, he and his team have been building 18 townhomes on North Fair Oaks Avenue. 

But the city stopped

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