In this amicus brief, CSAC defends the City of Oakland’s public art ordinance, which requires large residential and commercial development to spend a specified percentage of the project cost (or pay a similar in lieu fee) to install public art.  CSAC argues that the ordinance does not create an unconstitutional taking, and does not implicate First Amendment speech.  The brief was drafted by Philip Seymour at the Sohagi Law Group in Los Angeles.