14 DAY TRIAL // Apple’s CEO has been granted a demolition permit by a March 2010 ruling by San Mateo County Superior Judge Marie S. Weiner, after nine years of trying to get permission to replace a house that he owns.
The house in question was designed by architect George Washington Smith for copper baron Daniel C. Jackling, according to almanacnews.com.
It has been owned by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs since 1984.
In 2001, Jobs decided to replace it with something smaller, and perhaps more modern, but a group that sought to preserve the house as an important piece of Woodside history turned out to be a huge roadblock for Jobs’ plans.
The group, called Uphold Our Heritage, reportedly dropped its appeal on July 19 (this year) of a March 2010 ruling by San Mateo County Superior Judge Marie S. Weiner.
The ruling granted Mr. Jobs a demolition permit, according to Doug Carstens, Uphold's attorney.
Uphold spokeswoman Clotilde Luce said that the town "will be deprived of this quite interesting piece of California history."
Luce’s family owned the house in the 1960s, and now lives in Miami Beach.
Carstens said that Uphold made its decision after Mr. Jobs failed to respond to a proposal by Woodside residents Jason and Magalli Yoho.
The proposal, touted as a “really great” one, was to to dismantle the house and move it to 215 Lindenbrook Road, two miles away from its current location at 460 Mountain Home Road.
The Yohos would have paid "a very large part of the relocation and restoration costs," Mr. Carstens told The Almanac.
Clotilde Luce said that the Yohos would have lived in the house and opened it to the public once a year. in an e-mail.
Mr. Jobs was expected to "put in something" to help finance the move, but that the Yohos "were going to cover almost everything," Luce noted.
“Had Mr. Jobs agreed to it […] it would have solved land-clearing problems and would have prevented adding to area landfills,” the Uphold spokeswoman reportedly told The Almanac.