this email from the San Francisco Arts Commission:

Help Us Shape Section 429 of the Planning Code to Bring More Art to the C-3 Downtown District    

 

Tuesday, October 18 at 5:30 p.m.

African American Arts & Culture Complex, 3rd Floor

762 Fulton Street, San Francisco

*Parking available/MUNI Fulton 5

"Crouching Spider" by Louise Bourgeois

The San Francisco Arts Commission has worked with the San Francisco Planning Department to revise legislation that will modify
Section 429 of the Planning Code, which requires that private developers within the C-3 downtown district expend 1% of their project construction costs to acquire and place permanent public art at their development site. The new legislation will offer expanded options for developers, including the choice to deposit the “1% for Art” fee into a Public Art Trust that allows for the funds to be spent at places other than the development site.

The Trust will provide for a wide variety of arts programming in the downtown district, including temporary and permanent public art installations as well as performance, restoration of publically-owned artworks in the downtown district, and a funding reserve for local artists and arts organizations that will allow them to present their work to a broader audience in the downtown area. The Trust will also provide funding for capital improvements to cultural facilities in the downtown area. This is the first legislation of its kind in San Francisco.

 

Co-sponsored by Mayor Ed Lee and President of the Board of Supervisors David Chiu, the legislation was introduced to the Board of Supervisors on July 19 and has been referred to the Planning Department as well as to the Department of Building Inspection. Later this fall, the legislation will be returned with recommendations from both departments to the Board of Supervisors for final approval. In composing this legislation, Arts Commission staff has met with artists, city planners, developers, land-use attorneys, urban designers, architects, arts commissioners, government staff, elected officials and numerous non-profits with a vested interest in the beautification of the city and the development of policies pertaining to art, urban design and economic development. Add your voice to the process by joining us on October 18!

 

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