Approval of tech billionaire’s proposed mansion is challenged by Park City neighbors [Video]

Some Park City residents are challenging a city panel’s approval of plans by Utah’s richest man to build a sprawling new home on the mountain overlooking historic Main Street.

Ten residents contend the mansion proposed by billionaire Matthew Prince, founder of the technology security firm Cloudflare, is larger and taller than city ordinances allow and that the planning commission should have rejected the application last month instead of giving the project the go-ahead.

Prince, who according to Forbes is the wealthiest man in the state and the second-richest Utahn behind Gail Miller, ended up back before the planning commission after an attempt to have the Legislature insert language approving the project into an affordable housing bill in 2024 failed.

At a public hearing on the issue, Eric Hermann — who with his wife, Susan, owns the parcel adjacent to Prince’s and is one of the residents challenging the approval — said he was “shocked” to see that, rather than “requiring the design …