Feb 22, 2012 2:04 PM
A pair of 16-foot-tall fiberglass legs in Sag Harbor continues to wade through zoning issues. COLLEEN REYNOLDS PHOTOS
The tall, toned “Legs” sculpture striding alongside a Madison Street church-turned-house in Sag Harbor continues to trudge through a bramble in which zoning requirements and calls of artistic legacy and expression are brushing against each other uncomfortably.
The Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday night closed a public hearing and left open a 10-day period for written comment before making a decision on an application for variances that would allow the sculpture to remain where it is.
The decision came after testimony from attorney Richard A. Hammer, who argued that the legs adorning the home of his clients—art gallery owners Janet Lehr and Ruth Vered, owner of the Vered art gallery in East Hampton—are not a structure, as the village has argued.
Instead, he said, it should be seen as... more
The Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday night closed a public hearing and left open a 10-day period for written comment before making a decision on an application for variances that would allow the sculpture to remain where it is.
The decision came after testimony from attorney Richard A. Hammer, who argued that the legs adorning the home of his clients—art gallery owners Janet Lehr and Ruth Vered, owner of the Vered art gallery in East Hampton—are not a structure, as the village has argued.
Instead, he said, it should be seen as... more
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