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Murals remain a central, multi-part strategy — grants, small-scale pieces and educational workshops
Summary
The commission endorsed small-scale murals for cost-effective corridor coverage, interactive community murals combined with workshops, and a mural grant program for business owners; staff will combine mural directories and artist registries on the city website.
Commissioners discussed multiple mural pathways: small-scale murals to increase visual density in the corridor, interactive 'paint-by-number' community murals paired with educational workshops, and a mural grant program that would partially fund business-owner projects. Several members noted the mural grant approach already exists in practice and could be folded into the citywide mural program.
S1 said the city already has a mural placement directory and proposed merging it with the corridor strategy; the commission supported keeping the directory and artist registry on the city site so businesses can apply and artists can be matched. The group asked staff to confirm whether mural lighting integration should stay in the immediate strategy or be moved to a later planning stage.
