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Board approves Middleway House’s "Wrapped in Love" tree-sweater installation

5820980 · September 10, 2025
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Summary

The Board of Public Works approved a resolution allowing Middleway House to install decorated tree 'sweaters' and hotline placards on public-right-of-way trees this fall after city legal staff cleared designs and wording as government speech exempt from the city’s art-in-the-right-of-way policy.

The Board of Public Works on Sept. 9 approved Resolution 2025-0266 to allow Middleway House’s annual Wrapped in Love program to install knitted coverings on trees in the public right of way and placards advertising the organization’s crisis hotline.

Holly Warren, assistant director for the arts in the Department of…

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