It’s former state Senate President and would-be Oakland Mayor Don Perata. Times Political Editor Lisa Vorderbruggen with the story:

Former Democratic Senate President Pro Tem and would-be Oakland mayor Don Perata has a new home address: Orinda

He bought a single-family house valued at $998,000 and opened an office of his political consulting firm in the bucolic Orinda a few months ago.

Someone tell him to take it easy with the leaf blower.