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East Lansing council asks city attorney to draft updates to public art 'percent for art' ordinance
Summary
After presentations from the Arts Commission, the council voted unanimously to ask the city attorney to draft changes to Ordinance 13-39 that would broaden eligible art types, remove internal contradictions, and clarify allowable uses and coding alignment.
The East Lansing City Council on March 4 voted unanimously to ask the city attorney to draft proposed amendments to Ordinance 13-39, the city's public art “percent for art” rule, after members of the Arts Commission described proposed changes intended to broaden the ordinance's definitions and remove internal contradictions.
Arts commissioners told the council the current ordinance restricts the city to funding certain permanent visual works and contains lines that contradict one another. “Right now, there is a whole definition of how the artwork that we fund can be on public…
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