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Graffiti: Tips for Prevention

Graffiti sends a message to citizens and visitors that people don’t care about their neighborhood. It also decreases property values and deters business and tourism.

GOOD TO KNOW

Keep America Beautiful’s Graffiti Hurts® program states that graffiti is the most common type of property vandalism and that graffiti removal requires a large amount of a municipality’s budget.

GOOD TO DO

Keep America Beautiful’s Graffiti Hurts® program has 12 tips for graffiti prevention:

  • Encourage citizen reporting
  • Keep up the neighborhood
  • Remove graffiti promptly
  • Enforce anti-graffiti laws
  • Educate youth
  • Use an “adopt-a-spot” program
  • Create a paintbrush mural
  • Change the environment
  • Employ graffiti resistant surfaces
  • Monitor graffiti-prone locations
  • Employ curfews
  • Provide alternatives

 

How can you keep the Grease Grinch away?

Avoid the Clog Monster

Pick up the poo for clean waterways

Take the Scoop-the-Poop Pledge

What should never go down the storm drains? 

SEE HOW YOU CAN DO YOUR PART

Put Hazardous Household Waste in its proper place!

Dispose of HHW safely

Remember paper, plastic bottles, metal cans...

Take our fun quiz!

Making home or yard improvements to waterfront property?

Check to see if you need a CBPA permit or approval

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We live in a beautiful region surrounded by water. It impacts everything from the food we eat to the fun we have as well as our economic livelihood. Our daily actions have a lasting impact and it's up to us to protect and restore our waterways. It takes a community of individuals making small changes to make a difference. Getting involved in the Bay Star programs is one way you can be part of the effort to protect our region's most defining natural resource, water.

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