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City of Alameda Amendment Updating the Public Art Ordinance. The Planning Board will consider modifications to update and improve the regulations governing the Public Art Ordinance. The proposed amendment is categorically exempt from further environmental review pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines 15305 Minor Alterations to Land Use Limitations
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CITY OF ALAMEDA
Memorandum
To: Honorable President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Lois Butler
Economic Development Manager
Date: March 13, 2017
RE: City of Alameda Amendment Updating the Public Art Ordinance. The Planning Board will consider modifications to update and improve the regulations governing the Public Art Ordinance. The proposed amendment is categorically exempt from further environmental review pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines 15305 Minor Alterations to Land Use Limitations.
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BACKGROUND
Alameda Municipal Code Section 30-65 Public Art in New Commercial, Industrial, Residential and Municipal Construction (the "Ordinance,") was adopted in 2003, to require that major development projects include on-site public art. The Ordinance also allows an applicant to pay a fee in-lieu of providing the art on-site. Any in-lieu fees collected are deposited in the dedicated Public Art Fund (the "Fund"). The Fund can then only be used by the City to provide or support public art. Staff is requesting that the Planning Board recommend approval of the amended Public Art Ordinance to the City Council. While the staff report also discusses the Public Art Commission's (PAC's) action on the Request for Proposals (RFP) for disbursing Public Art Fund monies, staff is not requesting any action from the Planning Board on that issue.
Since 2003, eleven public art installations have been completed on-site or are in progress at various private and municipal developments. Because many developers have chosen to install art on-site, annual in-lieu contributions to the Fund have been minimal, an...
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