{"id":422977,"date":"2023-04-15T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=422977"},"modified":"2023-04-15T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T20:32:08","slug":"patriots-owner-robert-kraft-at-odds-with-hampton-officials-over-elevator-in-his-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/patriots-owner-robert-kraft-at-odds-with-hampton-officials-over-elevator-in-his-mansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Owner Robert Kraft At Odds With Hampton Officials Over Elevator In His Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The $43 million seaside mansion owned by the 81-year-old millionaire Robert Kraft owner of the New England Patriots is fighting Southampton officials to install a lift because he claims to be &#8220;mobility impaired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, some critics complain that the sports entrepreneur is avoiding the town&#8217;s strict zoning and architectural laws by referring to recent images of him spryly playing tennis and golf with his gorgeous fianc\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<h2>Patriots Owner Robert Kraft At Odds With Hampton Officials Over Elevator In His Mansion<\/h2>\n<p>Attorney Mike Sendlenski stated at a Jan. 26 meeting of the local Zoning Board of Appeals that his client urgently need the lift for medical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoctors have advised him to limit his traversing stairs as much as possible,\u201d he pleaded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Billionaire problems.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Kraft is feuding with Hamptons officials over his right to build a $2 million elevator in his $43 million mansion.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cJPzrbCx8x\">https:\/\/t.co\/cJPzrbCx8x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OutKick (@Outkick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Outkick\/status\/1647288927982608384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mark D. Price, the team doctor for the New England Patriots, stated in an affidavit that, in his opinion, Robert Kraft&#8217;s &#8220;progressive knee pain&#8221; qualified as a &#8220;medical disability&#8221; under the Americans with Disabilities Act, necessitating the installation of a lift.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Kraft was recently photographed playing tennis with Dana Blumberg, 49, in Sun Valley, Idaho, several villagers expressed outrage. Last October, the pair were hitched.<\/p>\n<p>Images from February 2022 show Kraft playing golf at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, before The Genesis Invitational.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Patriots owner Robert Kraft at war with Hamptons officials over $2M\u00a0elevator <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1iXRlYW2W7\">https:\/\/t.co\/1iXRlYW2W7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lets Get Financial Freedom (@GoNewsDaily1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoNewsDaily1\/status\/1647257748617277441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Robert Kraft manipulated a $43 million Hamptons real estate sale, according to one irate resident. &#8220;If you Google &#8216;Robert Kraft tennis,&#8217; you see recent photos of him playing tennis and you get this feeling they are just willing to do anything to win,&#8221; he said. In November 2021, Kraft&#8217;s up-and-down conflict started.<\/p>\n<p>In a heated 3-2 decision in March 2022, the Architectural Review Board approved the lift, but Kraft now faces a more difficult struggle from the village&#8217;s zoning nabobs. He could bring an ADA lawsuit against the village.<\/p>\n<p>At the January hearing, ZBA member Susan Stevenson snorted, &#8220;There is nothing subtle about this.&#8221; Members of the board stated that they would want the outside lift to be buried within the seven-bedroom, eight and a half-bath house at 40 Meadow Lane.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Robert Kraft said he needs it for his disability but photos show him playing tennis and golfing.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ISPdhXogHk\">https:\/\/t.co\/ISPdhXogHk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thedailybeast\/status\/1647336645463531524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The argument put up by Team Kraft that an internal lift would cost $2.47 million and an external lift $1.16 million was rejected.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ksuz-Vmsq8k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Urban Meyer Puts A Full Stop On His Coaching Career: \u2018That Book\u2019s Closed\u2019\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/urban-meyer-puts-a-full-stop-on-his-coaching-career-that-books-closed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Urban Meyer Puts A Full Stop On His Coaching Career: \u2018That Book\u2019s Closed\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $43 million seaside mansion owned by the 81-year-old millionaire Robert Kraft owner of the New England Patriots is fighting Southampton officials to install a lift because he claims to be &#8220;mobility impaired.&#8221; However, some critics complain that the sports entrepreneur is avoiding the town&#8217;s strict zoning and architectural laws by referring to recent images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":422979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,48],"tags":[3366,7097],"class_list":["post-422977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-england-patriots","category-nfl","tag-robert-kraft","tag-robert-kraft-hampton"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}