AN EXCLUSIVE PARK IN THE HEART OF SILICON VALLEY FACES RACIAL JUSTICE RECKONING. Foothills Park is a city-owned park that homeowners have fought for decades to keep closed to outsiders. … Now, a debate over the municipal code is boiling over, with new attention from Black Lives Matter demonstrators, civil rights lawyers and people who live in neighboring towns who argue the restrictions on a public space reek of racism and segregation.