He launched a dramatic strike after the city of Sunnyvale halted his project. Now, he hopes to resume construction this week.
After a dramatic eight-day hunger strike, developer Navneet Aron has started eating again and is hoping to resume construction this week on a Sunnyvale project that was stalled due to a permitting snafu.earlier this month, vowing to refuse food “until death” unless the city let him resume work on 18 townhomes his crew is building on North Fair Oaks Avenue.
What was his first meal? Aron broke his fast Friday evening with something he had been craving for a long time: Indian food. The next morning, his 9-year-old daughter made him an omelet for breakfast.His strike highlighted the headaches that come with getting housing approved and built in California. Despite the state’s dire shortage of places to live, developers say the permitting process is complicated and prohibitively expensive, especially for small developers.
But it seems things will move much more quickly. Santa Clara County’s Department of Environmental Health on Monday confirmed it has received Aron’s paperwork.
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