In The Register, a remarkably blasé report on the designation of the house where Jobs and Wozniak created the first Apple computers:
The house where Steve Jobs built his first computers has been added to a list of historic buildings in Los Altos.
The Los Altos Historical Commission voted unanimously to add the home at 2066 Crist Drive as a historic resources, since its hallowed garage was where Jobs made his first computers and co-founded Apple, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
The commission’s report said that it had been reviewing the property for potential designation for the past two years due to its “association with an event and an individual of historic significance”.
From other discussion on the topic, this will require the current owner of the property (Patricia Jobs, the sister of the late Steve Jobs) to get the commission’s advance permission to do any kind of work on the house … including ordinary maintenance. No funds from the municipality go along with this designation: once your house has been so designated, you no longer exercise full rights of ownership, but you still are required to pay for any work the commission deems necessary or desirable. Ms Jobs apparently still has a right to appeal, but I don’t know what her chances of success might be.
So the town of Los Altos is celebrating a capitalist hero by curtailing the property rights of his sister.
Comment by Richard Anderson — November 2, 2013 @ 12:07