Greenwich Sends Mansion Back to the Drawing Board
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Russian millionaire Valery Kogan’s plans for a 54,000-square-foot mansion in Greenwich, Conn. were voted down by a city board after neighbors objected that the house would be too big.
The Greenwich Planning and Zoning Commission voted yesterday to reject a permit for the project, which would be the largest single-family home built since the New York suburb began reviewing plans in 2001.
“Thank God,” a neighbor who lives across the street from Kogan’s property, Charles Lee, said after the board voted 3-2 in a meeting room filled to capacity with onlookers.
“What we’re really pleased about is they used the power the community gave them to support the community. We are delighted,” Mr. Lee said.
Mr. Kogan and his wife, Olga, proposed to raze the 20,000-square-foot home on the site, which they bought in 2005, to make room for a house almost three times as large with two wings and space to park 12 cars.
Mr. Kogan, chairman of East Line Group, which operates Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport, has a net worth of $600 million, according to the February issue of the Russian financial news magazine, Finans.
