Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce had just gotten their neighbors’ permission for landscaping plans for their $5.35 million mansion when new complaints blocked the process again.
The couple, who married in July 2026, were fight with other residents of Bratenahl, a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on the south shore of Lake Erie.
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s plans for their $5.35 million lakefront mansion in Ohio have been partially thwarted for the third time.
Next-door neighbors argued the plans would destroy a sewer line and endanger wildlife.
The couple’s team hit back, pointing to the money they spent to prove they were “good neighbors.”
They had already been rejected twice for their plans to erect a six-foot-high aluminum fence around the property and plant about 50 towering trees around the mansion.
While the call for the fence was unanimously approved last month, longtime residents have pulled out all the stops to thwart the plans, raising other issues including the labeling of the two men. “absentee owners”.
“What am I going to do when I have 50 evergreen trees on my sewer line and they’re gone? “” argued a neighbor.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were accused of ruining the ‘peace and quiet’ in the village
Swift and Kelce purchased the 21,000-square-foot luxury mansion in Bratenahl, near the latter’s hometown of Cleveland Heights, for months before getting married.
The property has eight bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a two-bedroom guesthouse, a resort-style pool and a converted ballroom/games room.
After months of appeals, they were finally allowed to build the six-foot fence for their private oasis last month, after neighbors on both sides objected for more than an hour.
Katherine Bolton, who has lived next to the mansion for 35 years, told the village’s architectural review board at the time that the news of her new neighbors had been a “terrible blow” to “the peace and quiet in Bratenahl.”
However, a Daily Mail The report says the 72-page meeting transcript does not once mention Swift and Kelce by name.
But during a hearing on Tuesday, October 6, Bolton finally said out loud that the house was “recently purchased by Travis Kelce.”
Neighbors argued the couple’s plans would lead to multiple structural problems.
At the previous meeting, Bolton argued that she was offered $75,000 for lining a sewer pipe that she said would greatly detract from Swift and Kelce’s beautification plans.
“Planting 50 evergreen trees just ten feet from a 100-year-old clay sewer pipe is virtually guaranteed to cause severe root intrusion, structural pipe failure, and catastrophic sewage backups,” she said, citing AI-based research.
Chuck Bauernschmidt, another neighbor who has lived nearby for 39 years, produced photographs of the property, alleging “total clear-cutting of the shrubs and everything else.”
Bauernschmidt also warned that the spear-shaped design of the fence could endanger wildlife, as deer have been known to cling to the spikes.
While the board acknowledged that the owners have “higher security needs” than most, Katherine Bolton’s husband, Bill, argued that their fence would not keep out the paparazzi.
“I think the biggest threat to the candidate’s safety comes from drones and water,” Bill said, adding that he thinks the paparazzi can be “pretty aggressive.”
Swift and Kelce now reportedly need a new plan for the third time
Jacob Kutz of Tiny Construction, who is leading the project, said the couple already paid $7,500 to repair a broken section of sewer that worried Katherine Bolton, “without asking for help, just to show we’re good neighbors.”
They also moved the fence two feet inside the property lines, added two gates so Bolton could still access the sewer, a gate for Bauernschmidt, scrapped plans to lower it to the water and cut down trees on neighbors’ land at their own expense.
Despite their efforts, the board delayed approval of saplings along the shoreline at Tuesday’s meeting, believing the trees would be too tall even if trimmed.
However, they approved landscaping plans at the front of the estate on the condition that the trees on the south side were spaced far enough apart to allow them to mature properly.
Village regulations limit lakefront fences to 2.5 feet unless they are at least 75 percent transparent, to protect “the shoreline, views of Lake Erie and property values.”
The couple is now set to return for the third time with a new project.
“If they want to plant trees, they can plant trees,” one user commented.
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