Sal Teresi has a lot of gall, which does not in any way make up for his complete lack of brains or heart.

The fact that Teresi was able to get a permit online pretty much refutes any claim the city has to competency on this one, in my mind. If he wasn't supposed to get a permit, than the city should not have issued one, online or otherwise. I swear to goodness my head will explode if the city staff comes back and asks for more money bacause the online process they designed is flawed.

The fact of the matter is that the city of Mountain View has numerous blighted areas that seem to have become that way because city staff and council are more interested in bureaucratic process than they are in problem solving. It seems pretty clear from what I'm reading here that the city did nothing but make a bad situation worse.

I would love it if the city would just try to find solutions to our problems, instead of involving themselves in fights that ultimately require them to legally defend themselves. It's kind of expensive and there might, just maybe, be a better use for the money.

I agree with Old Ben. The fact that the guy got a permit, from the city of Mountain View, to do repairs on the roof, well, that says it all!! And then, the guy is trying to make the place nice, livable, and the city shuts down the project and let's the property go to ruins... now, you tell me, who is the guilty party here?

City staff under Duggan and Martelo seemed more interested in pusuing their own empire than serving the needs of Mountain View citizens. Completely predictable they would hang Teresi out to dry for not offering proper tribute. Should he prevail in his suit, It's we citizens who will pick up the tab for their arrogance. Let's hope our new manager remenbers they all work for us, not the other way around.

here's to the property owner winning this one....and he should...city staff has an automatic conflict of interest in helping a property owner get a permit to do anything....the more they can draw it out and run the fees up....the more goes into the kitty for their inflated pay scales and hugely inflated pensions and medical benefits.. something happens to people when they become government employees ...and that includes the elected..

Sal: Align yourself with other developers who have had similar issues
with the City, such as Toll Brothers, Jazz builders,Classic Communities and others who have encountered CED hauranging, ordinance, BMR, design and legal dis-agreements while procuring entitlements. Seek their declarations and/or amalgamate into a class action suit. Expose the "My Way or the Highway" Martello Regime.

Sal is crying in his soup after time has past and his former apartments bear a new address and are thriving in the shadow of the Google Empire. Sal The Slumlord gave his tenants the Abner Louima treatment and gave his finger to the city. His blue tarp roofing and gang infested fenced off apartments screwed over the Hamwood Neighborhood, and dragged down property values for years due to his GREED Sal was given and unheard of R4 designation which would have allowed him to build an epic apartment complex, but he could not pull it off, and the taxpayers of Mountain View paid to clean up his stink pile. -- BMR funds are for Teachers, Police and Firefighters. -- This mess is a self inflicted wound and everyone involved needs to get over it and move on.

@QM-This is off-topic, but teachers, police and fire fighters make way too much money to qualify for BMR. I really do not know the type of profession that qualifies for BMR but the salary would have to be ~54K/year for a family of 4.

Agree with DCS and Developer. File a class action suit and do away with BMR. Let us not forget that the driving force behind passing BMR in 1998 was to keep public safety in the City - what a false pretense especially with what these guys retire on! NOW WE ALL PAY FOR BMR AND HAVE TO LISTEN TO PONTIFICATING COUNCIL MEMBERS FALL ALL OVER THEMSELVES OVER HELPING...WHO? GETTING MORE HELP FROM THE FIRE UNION?