Florida mayor apologizes for fight over 'Starry Night' home
July 19, 2018
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida mayor apologized Wednesday to a couple fined thousands of dollars for having their home's exterior painted to emulate Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night."
The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Mount Dora City Council unanimously agreed Tuesday that Lubomir Jastrzebski and Nancy Nemhauser can keep the blue-and-yellow paint swirled on their walls in the style of van Gogh's masterpiece.
The settlement also requires the city to pay them $15,000 and remove a property lien to end the nearly yearlong code enforcement case.
Mayor Nick Girone publicly apologized to the...
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