Thursday, June 19, 2014
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A Chattanooga city inspector says this art mural of flying doughnuts is an illegal advertisement for a nearby bakery and wants to paint over it to make it a blank wall again. This is no idle threat, it's already happened at BrewHaus in Chattanooga.
ReplyDeleteIn effect, this means this mural would be fine if it was across the street, a mural of flowers would be fine anywhere EXCEPT near a florist, and a mural of dogs anywhere EXCEPT near a doggie day care.
Let's encourage policy makers to change the sign ordinance if necessary to allow us to keep this mural. Let's support small businesses, allowing them invest in more public art in the future, beautifying our public spaces at no cost to the taxpayer. I'll be writing an open letter to Mayor Andy Berke (mayor@chattanooga.gov), Chattanooga City Councilmember Chris Anderson (anderson_c@chattanooga.gov), and the Times Free Press as well. Thank you for reading and please sign below if you agree!
To support even more (fully legal) public art in Chattanooga, please contribute even $1 to The McCallie Walls Mural Project's Causeway campaign!
https://www.causeway.org/cause/view/the-worlds-first-drive-through-gallery
Read the Times Free Press article: here:
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2014/jun/18/doughnuts-bring-ire-from-city-sign-inspectors/
You can read the city sign ordinance here:
http://www.chattanooga.gov/city-council-files/CityCode/03 - Advertising.pdf