“He took the threat of a lawsuit,” Jennifer Martinez said during a round table on housing after Thursday’s press conference. Martinez is the director of strategy for PICO California, a community organization network, and was previously part of Faith in Action.
He later told The Almanac that preliminary talks about what would lead to the formation of the “Bay’s Future” initiative began when a nonprofit coalition, Envision Transform Build – East Palo Alto, of which Faith in Action was part, he approached Facebook right after. The city of Menlo Park approved a proposal for development by the company to build two new office buildings and a hotel in November 2016. During the period prior to the approval of the development, the group took measures that would have paved the way for a demand how to point out problems with the environmental impact analysis of the project.
