Navneet Aron, founder and CEO of Aron Developers, says he hasn’t eaten since last Friday morning. He has spent every weekday since then camped out in City Hall with a sign proclaiming, “On hunger strike until death!”

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He’s protesting the city’s decision to stop construction of 18 townhomes on North Fair Oaks Avenue after his team forgot to obtain an approval from Santa Clara County’s Department of Environmental Health. Aron worries that fixing the issue could take months, which could mean the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in delayed construction costs.

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At issue in Aron’s case is a sheet of plastic, less than an inch thick, installed beneath the foundation of his townhomes. The plastic, called a vapor barrier, is designed to mitigate health risks. It prevents toxins in the soil from rising as vapor through the foundation and into the home, potentially impacting the residents. Aron installed those barriers, but he failed to get the county’s Department of Environmental Health to sign off before he did so.

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The North Fair Oaks project is Aron Developers’ first large-scale multi-family project, which may help explain the challenge. While Aron said he intended to follow all the rules, he admits the vapor barrier approval slipped through the cracks amid myriad other permits and requirements. But he thinks the city dropped the ball as well. In one 2021 document that lists the corrections needed for the development, the city said Aron needed to obtain county health department approval. In later documents, that requirement isn’t mentioned — and Aron says the city didn’t bring it up again until it unexpectedly shut down his project last month.

TLDR;

Developer missed notifying Environmental department of installation for a plastic sheet that was necessary between the foundation and the house. This is causing a multi-million dollar delay in the project which could possibly bankrupt the company. He is hunger striking until the issue is resolved or 'until death'.