So looking at this guy’s street on Google Maps, his house is immediately identifiable (check it out...226 Yale Road, Menlo Park, CA). Now that he’s put his info out there so publicly, it’d be funny to see parents from other nearby towns bring their kids to play in his yard almost like a free day care center. I’d like…

Mike Lanza is the Ultimate Helicopter parent. The article failed to mention that Mike Lanza spearheaded Measure M and measure to designed to derail any development on the 11 acres of former car lots about a 1/2 mile from his house. He reason, he didn’t want any additional traffic on a major street that his kids needed…

I read this yesterday and found Lanza’s casual sexism and willful negligence unnerving. I get what he’s saying about kids being able to play freely. I’m old enough to remember my mom sending me outside with a ball and saying “come back when the streetlights are on”. But she also told me to play in the middle of the…

I can understand the idea of a safe place for children to play... when I was little the empty lot we played in was both invaded by a masturbator who enjoyed watching us play one day- and a man who threatened us with a gun for being too loud. I feel like this man thought of this context and decided “I don’t want a…