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Planning Commission backs staff changes to 1% for art ordinance and recommends broader outreach to sponsors
Summary
The commission voted unanimously to approve Planning Department recommendations on the public art trust/1% for art ordinance — preserving the downtown gallery for large POPOs, allowing developer choice for other projects to provide on-site art or pay into a trust, removing an Arts Commission secondary review, and urging sponsors to consider expanding the requirement to other downtown districts after outreach.
On Oct. 27 the San Francisco Planning Commission approved, by unanimous vote, a set of staff-recommended amendments to the city’s downtown '1% for art' requirement and asked legislative sponsors to consider further outreach about expanding applicability.
Planning staff recommended maintaining the on-site monumental art requirement for large privately owned publicly accessible open spaces (POPOs) visible at street level, while giving developers of other projects the…
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