I personally experienced this myself because I drove by his house one time just intending to see what it looked like and maybe take a picture and suddenly a guy jumped out of a vehicle and started trying to take a picture of me in my vehicle !
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Peter Baltay, a Palo Alto architect who was then a member of the review board, told The Times he found the proposal odd and wanted to see the site in person before casting a vote.
But when he arrived, he said a security guard approached him and asked what he was doing.
'I said "I'm standing on the sidewalk looking at this project for review,"' Baltay recounted. 'He said, "Well, we'd appreciate it if you could move on."
'I was pretty shocked by that,' he said, noting it was a public sidewalk."