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That is a hideous building and a ridiculous size. Have some damn restraint.

Eh... It's a big house but not unprecedented. Apparently 7500 sqft of finished space plus a lot of unfinished basement, on a 3500 sqft footprint[0]. That's like... maybe 2x-3x a "normal" house. But if you look at the fanciest neighborhoods of any big city there's usually streets where every single house is this big. In fact, there are several such streets in Park City! I loaded it up in Zillow and immediately found an entire neighborhood full of similar-sized and larger houses [1][2][3].

As for "hideous", I guess that's a matter of taste but the style is frankly very common and popular these days, and IMO not at all out-of-place compared to some of these...

[0] https://www.parkrecord.com/news/dissenting-planning-commissi...

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7475-Foxglove-Ct-Park-Cit...

[2] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/680-Hollyhock-St-Park-Cit...

[3] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/795-Hollyhock-St-Park-Cit...

I didn't say it was unprecedented. What a strange way to respond.

Yeah, it can be a little mindblowing coming from the SF market, but just about any city[0] you can name has a couple of 10,000 sqft houses on the market right now. Sometimes they are pricey [1], sometimes less than a starter house in SF [2].

[0] https://www.redfin.com/city/10943/MN/Minneapolis/filter/prop... [1] https://www.redfin.com/NM/Albuquerque/Coyote-Canyon-DR-SE-87... [2] https://www.redfin.com/NM/Albuquerque/800-Salida-Sandia-SW-8...

I've seen a lot worst

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