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Committee directs staff to craft limited pilot for indoor daytime live entertainment and to pilot a decibel enforcement program
Summary
After public comment and detailed staff discussion, the committee directed staff to draft a tightly limited pilot allowing indoor daytime live entertainment at restaurants and to return with a concurrent decibel-based enforcement framework in January.
The Land Use & Sustainability Committee on Friday directed staff to craft a narrowly targeted pilot program to allow limited indoor live entertainment in areas that currently prohibit entertainment, and to return in January with both the pilot draft and the administration’s plan for a decibel-based noise-enforcement pilot.
Commissioners and staff said the city’s current live‑entertainment definition — which treats live and recorded music differently even at the same ambient level — is inconsistent and may be vulnerable to First Amendment challenge. Tom (Planning Director) explained the existing code treats recorded ambient music differently from live performance and that the city had been legally…
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