YOUNG people looking for something to do in Ballarat should think twice before picking up a spray can.The Generation Next survey revealed 86.2 per cent of respondents thought Ballarat should have a legal graffiti wall.They suggested places such as the skate park, Bridge Mall and Central Square as some of the possible locations.But councillor for city well-being and sustainability Des Hudson said he didn't think a legal graffiti wall was the best answer."I'd like to see a project such as Art Force, which has been running successfully in Brisbane for a number of years," he said.Ten years ago, Brisbane City Council found that traffic signal boxes were by far the council's most graffitied asset with more than 95 per cent tagged.The Art Force program was launched in 2000 and offered community groups, professional artists and young people a chance to create their own design and paint a traffic signal box.While graffiti, such as tagging, is often distasteful or offensive, street art offers a diverse range of spray can art, stickers and poster art."The program has got great potential to expose new young artists," Cr Hudson said."The dilemma between street art and graffiti is that graffiti is traditionally offensive."Street art and community art have stories and links to people and places."This project offers a canvas to deliver colour and vibrancy to our neighbourhoods."Cr Hudson said the project could work well in Ballarat but there were some challenges council would have to overcome."Unlike in Brisbane where the council owns the signal boxes, ours are owned by VicRoads," he said."We'd have to apply for permits to get the project up and running and we would need to be sure that the information and emergency numbers on the boxes were clear."Cr Hudson said the project would be a great way to engage young people and offer them something that they could work on and be proud of."They have to go through a process of submitting a design and getting it approved before they could touch a signal box," he said."Once the boxes are painted, if they are tagged we would repaint them neutral and the process would start again."In 2002 the Art Force project won a National Local Government Award."The best thing about it is that the thinking is already done," Cr Hudson said."There's no reason why it wouldn't be successful here."