Cloudflare billionaire Matthew Prince is suing neighbors who tried to block the project, accusing their dogs of being aggressive.
It was lunchtime on Thursday, and tech billionaire Matthew Prince was riding a ski lift above the jagged peaks of Park City, Utah, as he does every afternoon before heading back to work. Usually, Prince noshes quietly on a sandwich, but on this day he was animated and a little bit grumpy as he defended his plan to build a mega-mansion above the city’s historic Old Town“This is essentially just two rich people fighting with each other, which is silly, but here we are,” he told The Daily Beast.
Prince said he was “a bit puzzled” that the controversy had generated outside interest, “but such, I guess, is my life these days.” He attributed much of the blowback to misinformation. Some of his opponents, he noted, live miles away from the property, while others may not realize the site is exempt from certain zoning regulations because of a decades-old agreement with the town.
Years later, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many affluent techies fled to the mountains, and Prince relocated to Park City. “My wife, who’s actually from Boston originally, sort of fell in love with the place, and we decided to stay,” he said. “Never imagined I’d be back here.” After buying the property, Prince said, he went out of his way to earn his neighbors’ trust. Virtually all of them, “with the exception of the Hermanns,” backed his proposal, he said.
The regulations are extraordinarily complex, and Prince told The Daily Beast he had difficulty getting city officials to sign off on his plans. “For a while they were just like, ‘This seems complicated, we don’t want to deal with it.’ And that was frustrating,” he said. As a result, Prince continued, he tried to route his proposal through the state legislature. He claimed he reversed course once local authorities agreed to engage, adding that the process has since been much smoother.
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