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You Are Reading This at 2 a.m. Because a House on Navarro Drive Was Not a Home That Night Some nights the phone rings and the voice on the other end is a parent who has just lost a child. Not to an illness. Not to an accident behind the wheel. To a bullet, fired at the back of a house while a police car sat at the front. The house was an Airbnb. The party was on social media. The crowd was 150 to 200 people, most of them under 21, paying a cover charge to drink in a residential living room in a quiet Sunnyvale neighborhood. And the homeowner was not there — because the city’s own rule, written six years before, said the homeowner had to be. That rule is Sunnyvale Municipal Code Chapter 19.76. It was not a suggestion. It was the law. And the family now buried because of that night has a wrongful death case that runs along two parallel tracks: one against the homeowner who broke the city rule and converted his house into a commercial party venue, and one against the platform that listed an “entire home” in a jurisdiction that flatly…