Mural Ordinance Update
Greetings:
As you may already know, the City has not allowed the painting of murals on private property for several years now while the Sign Ordinance was being drafted. Planning recently completed this draft, in August, and presented it to City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) committee. Planning has now begun to address issues not covered in the draft ordinance — murals are one of them.
Councilmember Huizar introduced several Motions in the past few years to protect existing murals and to provide for their renovation and conservation. Now that the draft is complete, the City Council is taking up the issue of murals again.
On Wednesday October 12th a joint meeting of PLUM and the Arts, Parks, & Neighborhoods committees are going to consider all pending mural Motions and a report from Planning and the Department of Cultural Affairs, to begin to move forward on this issue so that murals can once again be permitted on private property in Los Angeles.
Ordinance follows:
ARTS, PARKS, AND NEIGHBORHOODS and PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES- SPECIAL JOINT MEETING WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2011 ROOM 350, CITY HALL – 3:00 PM* 200 NORTH SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 *Items 1 and 2 will be considered at 3:00 PM; the remainder will be considered at 3:30 PM ARTS, PARKS, HEALTH AND AGING COMMITTEE
MEMBERS:
COUNCILMEMBER PAUL KREKORIAN, CHAIR
COUNCILMEMBER HERB J. WESSON, JR. COUNCILMEMBER ED P. REYES
PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
MEMBERS:
COUNCILMEMBER ED P. REYES, CHAIR
COUNCILMEMBER JOSE HUIZAR
COUNCILMEMBER PAUL KREKORIAN
(Adam Lid – Legislative Assistant – 213-978-1071; e-mail adam.lid@lacity.org)
Click here for agenda packet Note: For information regarding the Committee and its operations, please contact the Committee Legislative Assistant at the phone number and/or email address listed above. Upon 72-hour advance notice, assistive listening devices, and other accommodations, such as sign language interpretation and translation services are available at the meeting. Contact the Legislative Assistant listed above for the needed services. FILE NO. SUBJECT ITEM NOS. 1 AND 2 WILL ONLY BE CONSIDERED BY THE ARTS, PARKS, AND NEIGHBORHOODS COMMITTEE (1)
11-1586 CD 14 City Administrative Officer report relative to proposed concession agreement between El Pueblo de Los Angeles and Soto-Alvarez, LLC for a Mexican-themes specialty retail and photo business located in the Hammel Building at 634 North Main Street. Fiscal Impact Statement Submitted: Yes Community Impact Statement Submitted: No TIME LIMIT FILE – NOVEMBER 28, 2011 (LAST DAY FOR COUNCIL ACTION – NOVEMBER 23, 2011)
FILE NO. SUBJECT
Arts, Parks, and Neighborhoods and
Planning and Land Use Management Committees- Special Joint Meeting
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
(2)
11-0689-S1 CD 14 Motion (Huizar – Parks – LaBonge – Garcetti) relative to review of proposed cooperative agreement between the City and the United Methodist Ministries Los Angeles District. Community Impact Statement Submitted: No ITEM NOS. 3 – 8 WILL ONLY BE CONSIDERED BY BOTH THE ARTS, PARKS, AND NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES AT 3:30 (3)
08-0530-S1 CONTINUED FROM JUNE 1, 2010, AND JULY 13, 2010 Departments of City Planning (City Planning) and Cultural Affairs (DCA) reports in response to Motion (Huizar – LaBonge) relative to requesting that the Department of Building and Safety and Department of City Planning cease issuing citations or notices to comply for mural signs ordinances until the City has established a permitting process for fine art murals on private property. Fiscal Impact Statement Submitted: No Community Impact Statement Submitted: No (4)
08-0530 CONTINUED FROM MAY 27, 2008, JUNE 1, 2010, AND JULY 13, 2010 City Planning and DCA reports in response to Motion (Huizar – LaBonge) relative to instructing the Department of Building and Safety (DBS) and the Planning Department to notify the DCA and the appropriate Council Office when a property owner has been cited for a violation and is being requested to remove a mural from private property. Fiscal Impact Statement Submitted: No Community Impact Statement Submitted: No
FILE NO. SUBJECT
Arts, Parks, and Neighborhoods and
Planning and Land Use Management Committees- Special Joint Meeting
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
(5)
08-1233-S1 Motion (Huizar – LaBonge – Krekorian) relative to declaring a moratorium on the issuance of notices to remove murals that property owners have evidence were completed prior to April 2002; and the creation of a working group to investigate how the City can restore funding for a program to convince building owners to maintain murals located on their properties for a set number of years. (6)
08-1233 CONTINUED FROM MAY 27, 2008, JUNE 1, 2010, AND JULY 13, 2010 City Planning and DCA reports in response to Motion (Huizar – LaBonge) relative to requesting that City Planning, with the assistance of the DCA, DBS, City Attorney, and the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA), first define what a fine art mural is and to draft an Ordinance that addresses the City’s need to facilitate new and preserve existing murals. Fiscal Impact Statement Submitted: No Community Impact Statement Submitted: No (7)
08-0515 CONTINUED FROM APRIL 16, 2008, MAY 27, 2008 , JUNE 1, 2010, AND JULY 13, 2010 City Planning and DCA reports in response to Motion (LaBonge – Huizar) relative to directing the Planning Department, with the assistance of the DCA, DBS, CLA, and the City Attorney to report with recommendations relative to the feasibility of establishing a process which would permit the installation of fine art murals on private property. Community Impact Statement Submitted: Yes General Comments: Studio City Neighborhood Council
FILE NO. SUBJECT
Arts, Parks, and Neighborhoods and
Planning and Land Use Management Committees- Special Joint Meeting
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
(8)
11-0923 Motion (Rosendahl – Reyes) relative to instructing City Planning, with the assistance of the DCA and the DBS, and in consultation with the City Attorney, to prepare and present an Ordinance to define murals as something other than signs and establish a Citywide program for permitting murals. Community Impact Statement Submitted: No COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST WITHIN THE COMMITTEE’S SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION Materials related to an item on this Agenda submitted to the Committee after distribution of the agenda packet are available for public inspection in the City Clerk’s Office at 200 North Spring Street, Room 395, City Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90012 during normal business hours. ap101211sp
As the Fourteenth District is home to the largest collection of murals in Los Angeles, Councilmember Huizar wants to ensure that the muralists within our district are aware of and have a voice in any new legislation.
We are holding a meeting on Tuesday, October 11th to give you a brief history of recent mural policy, to discuss what’s being heard at Wednesday’s Committee meeting, and to gather your thoughts on this issue.
Please join us on Tuesday at:
Los Angeles City Hall
200 N. Spring Street
4th Floor Media Room
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 473-7014
Please RSVP to tricia.robbins@lacity.org
