Posted on 07/18/2018 10:35:54 AM PDT by OddLane
The mayor of Mount Dora, Florida, will have to publicly apologize Wednesday afternoon for his city's overzealous code enforcement that targeted a home painted in the likeness of Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece, "Starry Night."
More importantly, the city will remove a lien against the property and drop more than $10,000 in fines it had issued to the husband and wife who own the home, according to a settlement approved unanimously by the city council Tuesday night. The Orlando Sentinel reports that the settlement also includes the payment of $15,000 to homeowners Lubomir Jastrzebski and his wife, Nancy Nemhauser.
The couple's colorful home became the subject of national media attention and legal scrutiny last year when city officials deemed the elaborately painted mural covering a wall in front of the house to be "graffiti" and ordered the couple to remove it...
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Decades ago I lived in a grad student co-op house near Cornell. At one point we replaced a cracked porcelain toilet and placed the old one out on the lawn, painted in, yes, dayglo colors. It stayed there for many years, but eventually the residents of the house moved on, and were replaced by new grad students who had no similar sense of humor. The old throne got chucked out.
But it was real handy in the meantime for giving directions. "We're the house with the dayglo toilet."
The Van Gogh family should sue them for copyright violation
LOL! How about a wrist ID?
This is the mayor, not HOA saying it is verbotten.
In my old hometown a bunch of do-gooders tried to form an HOA for a old neighborhood to get a historic designation.
One guy prominent house painted it a disgusting purple with pink trim and placed old toilets in the front yard as planters.
His resistance resulted in the collapse of the historic designation effort.
“apparently neighbors liked.”
You live there?
“I read the article expecting some ramblings on artistic expression from some partially sober artsy person. Instead, there was a uniquely simple solution to caring for an autistic son. Their reason for the jumbo Van Gogh was if their autistic son were to get lost, he could simply tell his finders to take him to the Van Gogh house. “
If you read other articles you will see the mother saying this as an afterthought and not the main reason.
“Wonder what their neighbors think?”
If it doesn’t negatively affect their homes’ values, then it doesn’t matter.
If it does, then SUE!!!!!!!
I pass a Painted Lady Victorian every day——muted colors,very tasteful,a beautiful house.
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But no one complains. This is a beer town, after all.
Reminds me of the Obama’s portraits.
Good for them, the lord mayor gets comeuppance.
I’d have no problem living across the street from them. What’s the big deal? Much better than living across from a perfect looking conventional house owned by a big asshole.
Van Gogh himself didn’t like Starry Night, and that copy on the house is even worse.
Wow. You cranky old farts don’t think much of private property rights, do ya?
Unless under contract to someone (HOA or similar) who cares what the neighbors think?
Was it painted black?
I once had a house painted like The Beatles White Album cover...
HUH! Dr Who fans perhaps?
My vision of what that house looked like was much nicer than reality. :(
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