"Mr. Burt, the mayor, caught many off guard in May when he said that he believed the zoning code says software companies aren’t allowed in the downtown. In recent weeks, he said he wants to update that code, allowing for software but restricting companies from taking large swaths of space, like Palantir and Amazon have done, together occupying hundreds of thousands of square feet."<p>As a young person who has moved to Palo Alto to work at a "software company" I find this sentiment very frustrating.