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Designing Local outlines Hilliard public-art master plan, seeks summer community input
Summary
Designing Local presented a proposed public art and placemaking master plan to the Hilliard City Council Committee of the Whole, laying out a summer engagement schedule, potential site recommendations and a preferred funding approach of a percent-for-art in capital projects; council members stressed accessibility, interactive elements and caution about over-theming.
Designing Local, a consulting firm hired by the city, presented a draft public art and placemaking master plan to the Hilliard City Council Committee of the Whole on May 11, and outlined a summer engagement schedule intended to gather resident input that will shape site-specific recommendations and a 5–10 year implementation plan.
The consultants said the plan will distill community values into project recommendations of varying scale, include policy and stewardship guidelines, and propose funding strategies to support public-art projects. "We really hope that this plan ... is of the community's vision, hearing what Hilliard residents, community members, [and] visitors want to see in this community," Anna Talarico, public art coordinator for Designing Local, said during the…
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