Population: 165,761
Type of Requirement: Ordinance

Physical Address:
City of Palmdale
Parks and Recreation Department
827 E Ave Q-9
Palmdale, CA 93550

Main Contact:
Keri Smith, Director of Parks & Recreation
Email Keri

Eric Dombrowski, Deputy Director of Parks & Recreation
Email Erin

The Code establishes a public art in private development program, which requires private developers of mixed-use and residential projects valued at five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) or more that create five (5) or more residential units to devote one half of one percent (0.5%) or more of the building permit valuation to make a public art contribution with a cap for single-construction projects of two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000.00).

The contribution requirement may be satisfied in the following ways:

• Developers may install public art on the development site in a public place that allows the public art to be visible from a public right-of-way or from other public property;
• Developers may pay an In-lieu fee to Palmdale public art fund; or
• Developers may install public art worth less than the requirement  and pay a public art in-lieu contribution to the public art fund to meet the remaining requirement value.

Projects exempt from this requirement include:

• Nonprofit and affordable housing developments and structures; and
• Mixed-use and residential projects that create four (4) or less residential units.