(A) Application procedures. An application for placement of art work on private property shall be submitted to the Community Development Director, and shall include the following information, at minimum:
(1) Preliminary sketches, photographs, or other documentation of sufficient descriptive clarity to indicate the nature of the proposed art work.
(2) An appraisal or other evidence of the value of the proposed art work;
(3) Preliminary plans containing such detailed information as may be required by the Community Development Director to evaluate, adequately, the location of the art work in relation to the proposed development, including compatibility with the character of adjacent conforming developed parcels and existing neighborhood if necessary to evaluate the proposal; and
(4) A narrative proposal with elevations, site plans, lines of site studies, renderings, and other descriptive materials, as deemed necessary by the Community Development Director, to be submitted to the Commission to demonstrate the art work will be displayed in an area open and freely available to the general public at least ten hours a day, seven days per week, or otherwise provide public accessibility in an equivalent manner based on the characteristics of the art work or its placement on the site.
(B) Approval.
(1) Except as provided in division (2) below, completed applications shall be submitted to the Community Development Director for review and approval of the art work, considering the aesthetic quality and harmony of the art work with the existing on-site improvements and the proposed location of and public accessibility to the art work.
(2) The Commission shall review the completed application, together with the recommendation of the Community Development Director and approve, approve with conditions or deny the proposed art work, and its proposed location, considering the aesthetic quality and harmony with the proposed project, and the public accessibility to the art work.
(a) If the applicant proposed significant revisions to the art work, a revised application shall be submitted to the Community Development Director for review and recommendation to the Commission. The Commission shall make a determination whether to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the requested revision.
(b) If the applicant proposed or the Planning Commission, or other decision-making body, recommends significant revisions to the architecture or physical design and layout of the proposed project subsequent to receipt of the Community Development Director’s recommendation, the revised application may be returned to the Commission for further review and recommendation.
(Ord. 1245, passed 9-15-04)