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06/27/2016 "CHAPTER 45: PUBLIC ART Sec. 45.010 Findings and Purpose. The City Council finds and declares the following: (a) public art is a valuable means of promoting vibrancy, defining cultural uniqueness, building community, and improving the quality of life in the City; (b) the environment, image, and character of the City would be improved by public art; (c) public art helps make cities more livable and more visually stimulating; (d) the presence of and access to public art enlivens the public areas of buildings and their grounds and makes them more welcoming; (d) public art can illuminate the diversity and history of a community, create/nurture/promote positive community interactions and conversation, and foster the economic development of the community. To realize these benefits of public art, the City Council believes that the Art in Public Places Fund established in Section 2.38 of this Code should be used to fund art in public places within the City. In providing for funding for art in public places, it is not the intent of the City to establish a designated public forum. Art receiving funding from the Art in Public Places Fund shall communicate the City's own messages and themes, including but not limited to, encouraging and promoting awareness of the City's ethnic, social and cultural diversity; showcasing historic heritage; enlivening an area; inspiring creativity; and reflecting a sense of community. The City Council also finds that the environment, image, and character of the City would be improved by art and that the impacts associated with new development projects would be offset, in part, by provision of art in compliance with this chapter. To ensure that public art is present and sustained throughout the community, this Chapter requires the inclusion of art in commercial developments over a certain size. Sec. 45.020 Definitions. For purposes of this Chapter, unless it is plainly evident from the context that a different meaning is intended, certain terms as used in this chapter are defined as follows: ART IN PUBLIC PLACES means any work of art displayed for more than two weeks in an open city-owned area, on the exterior of any city-owned facility, within any city-owned facility in areas designated as public area, lobbies, or public assembly areas, or on non- city property if the work of art is installed or financed, either wholly or in part, with city funds or grants procured by the city. ART means and includes, but is not limited to the following: A. painting in all media including permanently affixed works such as murals or frescoes; B. prints and drawings; C. reliefs, including carvings, frescoes, mosaics, earth works; D. sculpture, including statues, fountains, kinetic benches, electronic, mobiles and monuments, or other in any material or combination of materials; E. arches or other structures intended for ornament or commemoration; F. graphic and multi-media, including printmaking, photography, video, any combination or forms of electronic media in a large public scale; G. mixed or conceptual media in any combination of forms or media including Page 2 of 13 ATTY/ORD.429/PUBLIC ART FUND AND PROVISION OF PUBLIC ART BY PRIVATE DEVELOPERS ORD.NO.2424 REV:06-17-16 JS MUFF NO.301