As if his team’s playoff drought and volatile quarterback scenario weren’t enough headaches to deal with this offseason, billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft now faces a challenge we can all relate to:
Perceptive neighbors.
According to the New York Post, Kraft, 81, is in something of a homeowner’s association war with Southampton, N. Y. , zoning officials over his $43 million beachfront home. You try to install an elevator because of your limited mobility; They seek to block the structure because he is seen playing golf and even tennis with his wife of 49 years.
At a January hearing before the Southampton Village Board of Zoning Appeals, Kraft’s attorney, Mike Sendlenski, said his consumer was in dire need of an elevator for medical reasons because he had “mobility issues. “In an affidavit, Dr. Mark D. Price, the Patriots’ team doctor, said that in his opinion, Kraft’s “progressive knee pain” was a “medical disability,” making the lift mandatory under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
But skeptics in the community say Kraft is only looking to alter regulations and that he has enough compatibility to climb stairs, as evidenced by photographs of him working out. Just a few months ago, Kraft was spotted playing tennis with his wife Dana Blumberg in Sun Valley, Idaho. .
The board also needs the Kraft elevator to be hidden inside the seven-bedroom, 8. 5-bathroom home. Kraft claims that an indoor elevator would cost $2. 47 million, while an elevator would cost only $1. 16 million.
Basically, the community’s affluent citizens compete for the “horror” of an elevator and $1. 31 million.
Kraft was recently ranked by Forbes as the 59th richest user in America with a net worth of $10. 6 billion. The Patriots, which he bought in 1994, are the NFL’s second-most valuable franchise, the Dallas Cowboys, worth $6. 4 billion. .
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