Hello Commissioners, thank you for your volunteer service to our city in this ever-important area - the arts. I write for 2 reasons. First, ask you to recommend to council that we adopt a Art Mural Ordinance, like the City of LA's. Our meetings run so late, it's tough for me to get half of my priorities in when everybody wants to get to bed. In this City, a property owner cannot take a blank wall and decide to put a mural on it, I do not believe. I read our laws as allowing public art on new construction only. Second, there is an unhoused man on the Artesia Blvd. bike path who sells art. Making the art is theraputic. He lives in the pallet shelter. We have so many vacant buildings on Artesia Blvd, like the old futon place. Wouldn't it be great if we could get one of those owners to lend out the property as an art gallery... or if we could find a parking lot that artists could use, like the CVS/Grocery Outlet parking lot that is never full, where artists, housed and unhouses alike, could regularly exhibit their art on a certain day of the week? Maybe the new parking lot on Artesia on the SCE right of way. I encourage us all to be creative about how we can get art proliferating on Artesia Blvd. You have my full support in that vein.
Hello Commissioners, thank you for your volunteer service to our city in this ever-important area - the arts. I write for 2 reasons. First, ask you to recommend to council that we adopt a Art Mural Ordinance, like the City of LA's. Our meetings run so late, it's tough for me to get half of my priorities in when everybody wants to get to bed. In this City, a property owner cannot take a blank wall and decide to put a mural on it, I do not believe. I read our laws as allowing public art on new construction only. Second, there is an unhoused man on the Artesia Blvd. bike path who sells art. Making the art is theraputic. He lives in the pallet shelter. We have so many vacant buildings on Artesia Blvd, like the old futon place. Wouldn't it be great if we could get one of those owners to lend out the property as an art gallery... or if we could find a parking lot that artists could use, like the CVS/Grocery Outlet parking lot that is never full, where artists, housed and unhouses alike, could regularly exhibit their art on a certain day of the week? Maybe the new parking lot on Artesia on the SCE right of way. I encourage us all to be creative about how we can get art proliferating on Artesia Blvd. You have my full support in that vein.