Tampa Adult Entertainment: City commissioners ban most new murals downtown

October 21, 2009

Under the new law, murals presently being painted would be allowed. Other than that, no more murals can be painted in the downtown historic district unless the property owner can prove that there was a mural on the building before the city established the district in 1994.
Edward Haynes, the owner of Hannas Antiques, who paid for the mural, was annoyed by the turmoil created by what he called an artist’s mistake.
“If I thought there was anything indecent or immoral in the mural I would have painted over it myself,” Haynes said. “I didn’t notice anything wrong, and the artist painted over the part thought to be indecent without an argument. If the city was so interested in the moral character of the city why don’t they do something about the prostitutes soliciting on the city streets, or the bums sleeping in vacant lots at night?

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