‘Flintstone House’ lawsuit settled dinosaur statues can stay

Next a prolonged court fight, the Northern California home owner of the “Flintstone House” has quietly settled her lawsuit in opposition to the city of Hillsborough.

Florence Fang, the home’s operator, will acquire $125,000 from the city to protect legal prices from her lawsuit, in accordance to the settlement agreement. Fang have to also apply for setting up permits for the exterior of her residence, which will be accredited by the city after submitted, in accordance to town records.

The fit was settled in April, but the facts was not unveiled for the reason that of a gag order.

“The get-togethers have achieved an amicable resolution of the situation to the fulfillment of all the parties, these types of that the advancements produced to the Flintstone Dwelling will be permitted to keep on being,” the settlement states, in accordance to the Palo Alto Every day Write-up.

Fang’s lawsuit started in March 2019, right after the city of Hillsborough considered the home’s prehistoric garden decorations as a “highly obvious eyesore” following complaints from neighbors and inhabitants. Town officers alleged that the caveman-themed menagerie of 15-foot dinosaur statues and cartoon sculptures violated creating codes and ended up built with out appropriate permits.

Fang, former publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, was despatched numerous notices. Right after she failed to comply with halt-do the job orders, as effectively as an get to clear away the assortment of metallic dinosaurs and animals from her yard, the town took her to court in San Mateo County.

The town’s lawsuit requested the choose to deem the house a public nuisance and order the statues to be taken down.

Fang fought again with her have accommodate as an alternative, alleging that she tried to cooperate with city officers but that simply because of her race, they actively denied her ideal to construct on her home and enforced constructing codes that did not implement to her household.

Hillsborough Assistant Town Atty. Mark Hudan, who initially represented the town in the lawsuit in advance of being changed by attorney Scott Ditgurth, beforehand instructed The Occasions that Fang’s claims were being “completely baseless.”

“This cross complaint is intended to divert consideration from the core simple fact that Mrs. Fang installed a pretty large task with no getting permits, and blaming our enforcement staff members is not heading to improve what she did,” Hudan claimed.

Nestled in an upmarket San Francisco neighborhood, the orange and purple, boulder-like abode visible from Highway 280 has turn out to be a hotspot for vacationers and visitors, who usually cease to acquire shots.

The household, designed in 1976 by Bay Location architect William Nicholson, sat vacant for more than a 12 months just before Fang ordered it for $2.8 million in 2017.