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AGENDA STATEMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: May 3,2005
SUBJECT:
San Ramon Village Plaza Development - Public Art
Report Prepared by John Hartnett, Heritage and Culrural Arts
Supervisor
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Artwork Rendering
2. San Ramon Village Plaza - Layout Plan
RECOMMENDATI0!>J. ~
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1. Receive presentation from Staff.
2. Approve artwork or provide alternate direction.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT:
None
DESCRIPTION: Tn May, 2004, the City Council approved the site design for the San
Ramon Village Plaza development, located at the comer of San Ramon Road and Alcosta Boulevard. The
project is a mixed-use development of commercial and residential property. The project consists of 56
walk-up style townhouses, on approximately 3 acres, adjacent to 15,000 square feet of renovated retail
space, on approximately 2 acres. The 3 and 4 bedroom townhouse units are located within 3-story split-
level buildings, each with their own private front porch and two car garage.
As a condition of approval, the City Council has required the developer, Braddock & Logan. Inc., to
inelude a public art element in the project. The developer has selected Sunnyvale artist, Rachel Davis, to
create the artwork for the project. Ms, Davis, Statf and the developer have met on two occasions to refine
the potential design for the artwork.
Ms. Davis received her B.F,A., specializing in Spatial Art, from San Jose State University, in 2004. She
has done several solo and group exhibitions in the Bay Area and has created site-specific commissions for
a number of cities ineluding the recent piece 'Tip", which was installed at Gordon Park in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. Ms. Davis has also served as an assistant to world renowned sculptor, David Middlebrook.
Ms. Davis is experienced in all phases of metal casting, labricating, and finishing.
Ms. Davis has proposed a concept that would incorporate the idea of a growing community, as well as pay
tribute to one of the City of Dublin's founders, the Irish. The proposal, entitled "Entwined", is to use three
curved steel panels of different sizes placed near one another to fonn a spiral. 'fhe spiral, found in many
examples of ancient Irish works of art, honors the Irish immigrants who settled here. Images of local trees
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sueh as the oak and syeamore would be used as a metaphor for the growth and expansion ofthc City. The
tree branch designs would be water-jet cut outs of sheets of steel and appear to be growing in an upward
motion. Each panel of steel with branch imagery would look like its own unique piece of artwork, but
when viewed all together, it would fonn a single tree. Thc location of the artwork will be at the comer of
San Ramon Road and Bellina Street. The three panels will be four, six, and eight feet high and made of
hot-rolled mild steel 3/8 inches thick. The panels wj]] be mounted on a cement pedestal and will be
illuminatcd with lighting from ground levcL The steel will bc coated in a green color that will compliment
thc tcxturc and colors of the commercial and rcsidcntial clements of the project.
On April 14, 2005, the Heritage and Cultural Arts Commission reviewcd thc artwork and unanimously
recommended approval by the City Council.
RECOMMENDATION: It is the recommendation of Staff that the City Council receive the
presentation from. Staff and the artist. Following the presentation, it is recommended that the Council
approvc the artwork or providc alternate direction.
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