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Originally Posted by eixample
Maybe I am missing something but this sounds kind of toothless to be honest. Basically saying you have to get a permit to obstruct a mural, but you already need a permit to build anything in front of the mural or to demolish a building anyway. Mural Arts' only power is to give non-binding advice to L&I. You will need to get a permit to paint over a mural but if the only thing Mural Arts gets out of this is the ability to prevent spite white washings of murals, that's not a big deal to me.
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It depends on how Mural Arts uses that 45 day delay. If they use it to get a pro bono attorney to sue the property owner to stop the project, it's a big problem and I don't think that is all that far fetched given what happened with 5 Pointz in NY.
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