After spending much of today debating, sometimes heatedly, council has just passed a new graffiti policy that contains no startling new measures, and whose passage was confident from the outset. In fact, it passed unanimously. The new policy streamlines the implementation of current policies rather than taking council in a substantially new direction. Significantly, business owners will still be responsible for removing graffiti from their properties when instructed by the City to do so. Adam Vaughan introduced a motion calling for the specific protection of graffiti alley, near Queen and Spadina; that passed by a vote of 24-17.