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Almost identical to what tyra is talking about doing here. Its similar to public art murals, but similar in scope. 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 becau...

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 ...

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...

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...

Purview to deal with it. So, yeah, that is certainly a great tool to have. Every time i bring it up to my city, by the time we get the City Attorney involved, arts board involved, everybody else involved, they decide its too much work to do that and well just see what happens. One more. Lets hear from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Her statement frightens me. Im an arts person. This is San Francisco, were in a unique situation in that we really do our whole city lich on creativity. And we like to encourage it and also manage it at the same time. The street Smarts Program that i manage whic...