The Winner is........

The neighborhood voted and the winner is..........
the design submitted by Camille.

The city approved our application on 7/14/09 to install this design on Sept 26th or 27th at our annual block party.

The very last step in the approval process will be to present the project to the Boulder Arts Commission on 9/16/09.

This has been an interesting project and hopefully our project will be the first of many horizontal murals that will be showing up on Boulder streets.

Everyone in the neighborhood has been very receptive to the idea and we are all anxious to have paint brushes in hand and make the design a reality.

Here's the calendar of what we've accomplished so far to get this project accomplished:

1. September,2008 - I attended the showing of the "Portland Intersection Repair" film at Full Cycle
2. October, 2008 - A neighborhood committee was formed and met to plan the project for our street.
   
3. October 13, 2008 - I attended the Boulder Transportation Advisory Board meeting and requested their endorsement of our project. They approved our project and made a recommendation to the city staff to proceed with the creation of a process so that the street mural will not be treated as illegal graffiti.
4. January, 2009 - I applied for a Boulder Arts Commission Grant to fund our project but was denied the grant since I did not have city approval yet for the project.
   
5. February 3, 2009 - I attended the Boulder City Council meeting and requested their approval for our project so that the city staff could continue creating a process.
6. March, 2009 - I requested design suggestions from the neighbors and the Halcyon students to use for our street project. I received 7 designs.
7. April, 2009 - I requested funding from our neighborhood association for the project and received a grant of $100.
8. June 11, 2009 - I received the first draft of the city's Paint the Pavement process. This draft was reviewed by the neighborhood committee and suggested revisions were given to the city.
9. June 18, 2009 - The south 31st street neighbors voted on the 7 designs and selected the 2 final designs.
10. June 19-30, 2009 - The petition for the block party and the Paint the Pavement project was signed by all the neighbors on south 31st including the BVSD principal at the Halcyon school on Bucknell Court. The final design was selected.
    
11. July 9, 2009 - I turned in the application packet for the South 31st Paint the Pavement project to the Go Boulder office.
12. July 14, 2009 - the Boulder Transportation staff approved our petition.
13. July 17, 2009 - I submitted the application for the Addison Mini Grant
    
14. August 20, 2009 - Addison Mini Grant finalist interviews - unfortunately we did not get the grant
    
15. September 16, 2009 - attend Boulder Arts Commission monthly meeting and obtain their approval
16. September 23, 2009 - received 10 gallons of donated street striping paint from Colorado Paint Company
    
17. Saturday September 26, 2009 - 3 hours chalking the design and painting outlines for the design w/a small group of neighbors
    
18. Sunday September 27, 2009 - 8 am - 3 pm painting the design with >25 neighbors participating. 3 - 8 pm celebrating our accomplishments during the block party.
    

Neighborhood submissions

We received 7 entries from the neighborhood for designs to consider for the street design.