{"id":245033,"date":"2012-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/city-mitigates-graffiti-concerns-on-aldine-drive-restoration-wall\/"},"modified":"2012-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T07:00:00","slug":"city-mitigates-graffiti-concerns-on-aldine-drive-restoration-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/city-mitigates-graffiti-concerns-on-aldine-drive-restoration-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"City mitigates graffiti concerns on Aldine Drive restoration wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Margie M. Palmer | Reportero SDUN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Aldine Drive Restoration Wall was previously feared to be a target for graffiti. (Photo courtesy Rebecca Pond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After many voiced concerns about possible graffiti on the newly constructed Aldine Drive restoration wall, an anti-graffiti coating has been placed.<\/p>\n

The wall was constructed after an uncommonly high amount of rainfall during the 2004 season eroded sections of slope between Van Dyke and Fairmont avenues. After the rain, a state of emergency was declared for that portion of Aldine Drive, and the City secured federal grant funding to repair the damage.<\/p>\n

The result was the $2.27 million stabilization wall along the hillside that will retain the landscape and protect Aldine Drive. Construction began in May 2011.<\/p>\n

Soon after construction began, community members voiced concern that the project would become a graffiti magnet for local taggers.<\/p>\n

In January, the Kensington-Talmadge Planning Group (Ken-Tal) wrote to members of the Federal Highway Administration and Caltrans requesting anti-graffiti coating be applied to the wall. Once applied, the coating would create a protective surface on which spray paint could not bond.<\/p>\n

After learning the original plans did not include the protective coating, Ken-Tal Chair David Moty wrote to Caltrans, Federal Highway Administration and local elected officials. \u201cWe believe the lowest portion of the wall will become a prime target for vandalism. We believe [not including] an anti-graffiti coating in the project contract was a serious oversight,\u201d Moty wrote.<\/p>\n

Applying the preventative coating, he said, was a more practical and cost-effective approach than initiating a never-ending stream of graffiti removal requests.<\/p>\n

District Three Councilmember Todd Gloria\u2019s district includes Kensington and Talmadge. Gloria\u2019s Communications Director Katie Keach said Gloria agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe coating was not originally there but the anti-graffiti coating has been recently added at the request of our office and several neighbors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Moty said though the request took approximately three months to be honored, he said he believes this was \u201cpractically at light speed based on city processes.\u201d He said, \u201cWe\u2019re very pleased they managed to get at it before the first tags appeared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kensington resident Kelly Waggoner said though she is pleased the coating was added, it should have been a foresight.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who lives in or around the Mid-City is aware that graffiti is a problem in this area,\u201d she said. \u201cWe see it time and time again in our neighborhood and feel this should have been addressed in the design states of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moty said he agrees with Waggoner\u2019s sentiment, noting that Hoover High School\u2019s recently installed rough-rock surface bleacher stands have already been vandalized by taggers. The rough-rock surface is similar to the surface of the restoration wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be very difficult to remove the graffiti from this type of surface,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you live in our part of the city [the coating] needs to be designed into every project.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Margie M. Palmer | SDUN Reporter After many voiced concerns about possible graffiti on the newly constructed Aldine Drive restoration wall, an anti-graffiti coating has been placed. The wall was constructed after an uncommonly high amount of rainfall during the 2004 season eroded sections of slope between Van Dyke and Fairmont avenues. After the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":746,"featured_media":245034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"City mitigates graffiti concerns on Aldine Drive restoration wall","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}