ART94124 Oakdale & Third Beautification Project

With last month's Board of Supervisors vote to approve the installation of 726 new AT&T U-Verse boxes around the city, projects like this one from ART94124 NEED to be considered as vital to keep our cities free of as much blight as possible.  Each utility box art project would act as a way to bring neighbors together in choosing a design, it would give artists in the city a public canvas to display their work, and would help increase quality of life in our neighborhoods by discouraging urination on these boxes.  Of course, AT&T's new boxes are made of graffiti-resistant plastic, so there'd have to be some tweaking there to make this work, but work it could.  Sign up at AT&T's site so that you'll be informed as to when a box is being put into your neighborhood.

Antoinette Mobley of ART94124 wrote,

ART94124 is seeking proposals from artists who are interested in a Beautification Project located at the corner of Oakdale and Third Street

Scope of Work: ART94124 is requesting artists to submit a proposal to beautify the communication and electric service boxes that sit one the sidewalk at the corner of Oakdale and Third Street. This site has attracted unwanted attention and we hope by making the boxes visually appealing this will deter unseemly behavior.

Problem: need to deter public urination on sidewalk at the corner of Oakdale and Third Street.

There has been a longstanding issue of people urinating at the electric box on Oakdale Ave. Please click on the links below to see what others have done to deters this. One idea is to use the box as canvas for an art piece. It could even be something to promote the restaurant that is coming soon to this location.

Here are some of examples found online:
San Diego
Boston
Google
Random Specific

Please contact Antoinette Mobley at ART94124 if you are interested in participating.