![]() ![]() The Committee reviews the design, siting, orientation, and context. The Committee's oversight ensures that high levels of design quality are achieved, prior to the expenditure of large amounts of time and capital in the preparation of detailed construction documents.Ĭommemorative plaques placed on City-owned property or sidewalks also require review by the Civic Design Review Committee. To this end, the committee evaluates each project's design, scale and massing for accessibility, safety and aesthetic merit. The review process ensures that each project's design is appropriate to its context in the urban environment, and that structures of the highest design quality reflect their civic stature. The Committee also reviews historic plaques, arches, bridges, approaches and other structures extending over or onto any street, highway, park or other public place belonging to the City. The Commissioners conduct a multi-phase review of all civic buildings, viaducts, elevated ways, gates, fences, street furniture, lamps or other structures on City and County land. The Civic Design Review Committee is comprised of five Commissioners appointed by the Mayor, including two architects, a landscape architect and two other design professionals and/or lay persons. ![]() ![]() Civic Design Review is a Charter-mandated responsibility of the Arts Commission (see Charter Section 5.103).
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