
California's 'Flintstone House' can keep its cartoon statues thanks to a settlement
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Florence Fang, who owns a multimillion dollar home inspired by "The Flintstones," can keep the dinsosaur and cartoon-related statues, according to a settlement with the town of Hillsborough, California.
Florence Fang, the owner of the colorful, dome-shaped "Flintstone House" in Hillsborough, California, can keep her garden collection of dinosaurs and eye-catching "Flintstones" sculptures after settling a lawsuit with local officials, according to city records and The Palo Alto Daily Post. The town, a suburb of San Francisco, called the multimillion dollar homage to the 1960s cartoon a "public nuisance" and filed a lawsuit against Fang in 2019 for making landscaping changes that it said violated codes and for not complying with orders to stop working.
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