Last October, the City Council adopted an ordinance to allow the creation of new original art murals – one-of-a-kind, hand-painted, hand-tiled or digitally printed images on a building exterior that does not contain a commercial message and the preservation of existing vintage art murals on private property. The ordinance prohibited murals on single-family residences.

This week, the Planning and Land Use Management Committee recommended an ordinance to allow murals on single-family residences in Council Districts 1, 9 and 14, as well as on exterior building openings and on roll-down security doors on commercial or industrial buildings. The matter is scheduled for a full Council vote next week on November 27, 2013.

Photo: Los Angeles by Scott Beale, on Flickr.  This content first appeared in the Council District 1 e-newsletter.