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Planning board adopts ordinance language banning private murals in downtown; city plans public‑art commission process
Summary
The board approved an amendment to the sign code and definitions in the Unified Development Ordinance to define murals and prohibit private murals in the downtown central mixed‑use and gateway districts, while staff described a separate city‑led public‑art process for commissioned murals.
MONROE — At its Dec. 4 meeting the Monroe City Planning Board approved a text amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance that defines “murals” and prohibits private murals on private property within the downtown central mixed‑use and gateway zoning districts.
Doug Britt of the planning department presented the amendment, telling the board the proposed definition would read in part that a mural is “a picture or design painted or attached to an exterior surface of a structure.” Under the draft ordinance language presented to the board, “any private mural located on the exterior of a private property, painted by an artist, commissioned by a private individual, either with or without compensation, shall be…
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