San Francisco’s plan to paint the entire city with a 1 percent art fee for large-scale construction projects is back on the table after it was modified due to concerns from developers.Wary of additional costs, developers had met in recent weeks with Mayor Ed Lee and Board of Supervisors President David Chiu to discuss the legislation, which would expand an existing fee that has been in place for 25 years.
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Downtown developers required to finance public art may soon be able to meet that requirement as easily as writing a check.
On Thursday, the Planning Commission unanimously supported a measure by Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor David Chiu that would create a Public Art Trust Fund. It would allow developers who are required to put 1 percent of their construction costs toward public art to give the money to the fund instead of commissioning a project on their own.
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Downtown developers may lose the final say over what art to showcase on their property, even though they are sometimes forced to spend millions of dollars on it.
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An effort to beautify and unify the Polk Street corridor with historically themed murals appears to have done more to divide the community.
The joint project between the Lower Polk Neighbors and Mayor’s Office of Economic Workforce Development tapped local artists to draw up murals for Hemlock Alley and Fern Alley that could make the crime-plagued area more vibrant.
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