Delray Beach’s rainbow street art will remain in place for now, despite the state’s threats to imminently paint it over.

An informal hearing in Orlando Tuesday was the first time that the future of crosswalk art on roadways was argued with Florida officials since the controversial removal of the city’s Pulse rainbow crosswalk last month.

Attorneys for both the Florida Department of Transportation and Delray Beach were told to file their preferred final orders by the end of the week, with a decision to come at some point after.

FDOT originally told Delray that the rainbow at the intersection of Northeast 1st Street and Northeast 2nd Avenue needed to be removed by Wednesday, or the agency would take matters into its own hands and bill the city.

The threat was similar to others received

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