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title: "Travis Kelce’s Ohio lakefront home faces a second village design review on November 10"
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published: 2026-10-19T09:15:00+01:00
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# Travis Kelce’s Ohio lakefront home faces a second village design review on November 10

Bratenahl's review board held over the landscaping plan on October 6 because planting behind the house must stay under 10 feet; a revised plan is due back November 10.

The landscaping plan for Travis Kelce’s $5.35 million lakefront house in [Bratenahl, Ohio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratenahl,_Ohio), goes back before the village’s Architectural Review Board on Tuesday, November 10, after the board held it over at its October 6 meeting. The sticking point is height. In the zone behind the house, the board says privacy planting has to stay under 10 feet, and the evergreens in the submitted plan ran into that limit.

This is a design approval, not a legal fight. The village’s own agenda for October 6 listed the item simply as a landscape plan under old business, and nothing in the meeting record or the agenda involves a lawsuit or a complaint against Kelce. What makes it unusual is the owner: a Kansas City Chiefs tight end who grew up in nearby Cleveland Heights and whose purchase only became public on September 2.

## How the review got here

The sequence so far runs like this:

- **March 2026:** Kelce buys the house, an eight-bedroom, 11-bathroom Gilded Age mansion of roughly 21,000 square feet known as Moyenage.

- **September 2:** The sale is reported publicly.

- **September 8:** The review board approves a new fence, replacing a five-foot one with a taller fence set two feet inside the property line, but tells the owners the landscaping needs its own application.

- **October 6:** The planting scheme returns and stalls over tree heights; the builder, Tiny Construction LLC, says it now understands the 10-foot rule and will adjust.

- **November 10:** A revised plan is due back, and board members said they hope to finish then.

Before the plan came back, the board asked for a licensed survey showing the sewer line, the property boundaries, and the size and species of the trees already on the lot.

## What the neighbors raised

Residents who spoke at the two meetings raised four concerns: privacy, late notice of the changes, lost views of Lake Erie, and a sewer line roughly a century old. One neighbor told the board she shares a 115-year-old line with the property and worries the new trees could damage it. “When you plant that many trees from a short distance from a sewer line, you’re going to have a problem in the future,” she said, adding that she was not against the trees themselves.

A board member had a design objection of their own, telling the applicants: “What you’ve presented here is a screening plan. It is not a landscape plan.” The member suggested layering plants of different heights, sizes and textures instead of a bare evergreen backdrop.

## What the house cost, in context

The numbers explain part of the attention. A renovation firm, Figurati Construction Group, bought the house for $1.95 million in 2023, restored it and listed it that year at $6.99 million. Kelce’s $5.35 million price is about 23% below that first asking figure and about 2.7 times what the firm paid, a comparison that leaves out whatever the restoration itself cost. Spread over 21,000 square feet, it works out to roughly $255 per square foot.

Bratenahl, incorporated in 1903, is a small lakefront enclave bordered on three sides by Cleveland, with 1,430 residents at the 2020 census and a mix of estates, townhouses and condominiums on its lakefront. Mayor Keith Benjamin said in September that being a good neighbor means “giving people the privacy and the space to simply be at home.”

That balance between privacy screening and the neighbors’ views and pipes is exactly what the board will weigh on November 10, when it meets again to review the revised planting plan.

## Further reading

- [Wikipedia: Bratenahl, Ohio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratenahl,_Ohio)

*Image: Nyttend, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons*

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