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When we were doing our murals, almost 200 of them, there was no permit in place, but there was a selection process. And, so, if that was the heritage property, that had to go to heritage. And they had to decide whether or not that building had been painted and if a mural would go there. If so, did it work with the heritage esthetics, et cetera, et cetera. It also goes to the Community Group or the Business Group in that area. It goes through the Graffiti Department primarily because we do engage past graffiti vandals who are now legal and are doing artwork. So, in vancouver there is no active ...

We are running a womens Volleyball Program here at richmond rec center. Its progressing really nice. The ladies here really enjoy the exercise and the play and its a lot of fun want this program is not for the faint at heart. Its really intense. The ladies come out. They are really going after it. They just love to play and compete. Anyone can sign up. Were looking for more players. The women come from all over the city. We enjoy the program and we are getting people out to have fun in this beautiful city. Rec and parks womens Volleyball Program is available at richmond rec center. Please visi...

Have this piece of graffiti on our property and i dont feel its a nuisance and im not going to remove it . And we havent had any problems actually whatsoever with our graffiti by law being challenged. How the by law works is that our by law officers, any graffiti that comes up is at their discretion. So, whether they determine what is on the property is a nuisance and it allows us to keep our Mural Programs running. It allows us to look at individual situations. Early on we had one situation where there was a Property Owner dispute between two neighbors where one had painted a sunflower on her...

My name is larry and im chair of the San Francisco graffiti Advisory Board and Deputy Director of operations, department of public works. Welcome to zero graffiti international conference. applause this morning you will hear from several great speakers and i hope that you are all ready for a fantastic conference. Theres a lot to get from today. I want to be brief and move things along. Mayor ed lee could not be here this morning but he is very excited about this event and prepared a welcome via video. Now the honorable mayor of the city and county of San Francisco mayor ed lee. hello. Im mayor...

Of our forms and criteria that they go through and the Property Owners are also required to sign off a form giving the volunteer Agency Permission to paint their building. So, were distancing ourselves from that so we dont have a problem. Before i became a consul ant i was with city of san jose antigraffiti for 10 year. We ended up with over 3,400 graffiti volunteers. Thats a big number. And the number of first of all, we did a good job training them and we made sure that if there were that they knew if there was anything out there, somebody watching them or a gang area, a gang tag, we didnt w...