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Keizer committee says street painting is public art, not an official traffic-calming measure
Summary
Residents and committee members agreed the city's street painting program is intended as public art and neighborhood development; the Arts Commission will manage approvals and Public Works will handle safety reviews. Committee removed the agenda'item label that implied it was a traffic-calming measure.
The Keizer Traffic Safety Bikeways Pedestrian Committee on Sept. 18 clarified that the city's street painting program is a public-arts initiative, not an engineering traffic-calming treatment, and said the Arts Commission will own approvals while Public Works will review siting for safety.
Tammy Saldivar, a Keizer resident who spoke to the committee, said the program "was designed not as a street or a traffic calming measure. So I'm asking that we stop promoting it as such." Saldivar told the committee the program is administered through the Arts Commission and that…
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