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Neighbors who want to deny tech billionaire Matthew Prince a permit to build a new 11,000-square-foot home above Park City’s Treasure Hill will make their argument to a three-member panel Tuesday. The meeting at City Hall has the national media’s attention.
The Park City Follies got the spotlight in The Wall Street Journal over the weekend, as part of a report on the feud stemming from Matthew Prince’s home plans.
Most of the attention has focused on Sasha and Mocha, two Bernese Mountain dogs owned by Eric Hermann and Susan Fredston-Hermann, Prince’s nextdoor neighbors. The couple filed an appeal with Park City in March to block the Cloudflare CEO’s home, which was approved by a split planning commission.
Prince has filed two separate lawsuits against the Hermanns since the appeal. One lawsuit claims the two dogs “have aggressively approached, chased and harassed” people on the Prince property.
Hermann told KPCW he felt the WSJ story missed the point, which is the “intimidation of a city by a billionaire.”
“Since we became the face of the community trying to preserve Old Town’s unique character by preventing construction of a monster mansion the size of our city hall, we have been brutally harassed,” Hermann said.
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