Ramachandran

I. BACKGROUND

1 A. The Parties 2 Plaintiff Satish Ramachandran moved to the United States from India in 1986. Dkt. No. 3 165-3 ¶ 2. He has owned a home in Los Altos, California since 1993. Id. ¶ 3. 4 Defendant Los Altos has a Community Development Department, which includes a 5 Building Division and a Planning Division. Id. ¶¶ 4-5; Dkt. No. 155-4 at 37:17–38:12. Defendant 6 Kirk Ballard is the Building Official of the Building Division, a position he has held since 2000. 7 Mr. Ballard is responsible for supervising the processing, plan checking, and inspection of all 8 construction projects in Los Altos. Dkt. No. 155-2 at 47:13-24, 49:6-18. Defendant David 9 Kornfield was the Planning Services Manager for the Planning Division from 2010 to 2018. Dkt. 10 No. 155-3 at 76:17-21, 85:3-20. Mr. Kornfield’s responsibilities included providing support to 11 Los Altos’s planning, historical, and environmental commissions, supervising associate planners, 12 and occasionally assisting at the public planning counter. Id. at 85:24–86:14. Defendant 13 Christopher Jordan is the Los Altos City Manager. Dkt. No. 154 at 5; Dkt. No. 165-3, Ex. 22 at 14 ECF p. 174; see also Dkt. No.…