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Supervisors approve health and planning code changes to tighten oversight of massage establishments
Summary
The board passed two ordinances on first reading to revise the health and planning codes, expand permitting, require conditional use permits for many massage establishments, add trafficking-related permit denials and grandfather certain existing businesses; supervisors pledged continued amendments to ease impacts on solo practitioners.
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed, on first reading, two ordinances to tighten local oversight of massage practitioners and establishments aimed at preventing illicit activity while preserving legitimate businesses.
Supervisor Katie Tang, the lead sponsor, said the measures would give city departments additional tools to regulate establishments where some activity may not be legitimate massage services.
"We're really trying to give our city departments the additional tools that they need to properly regulate activities happening in our massage establishments," Supervisor Tang said during the discussion.
What the ordinances would do: The first ordinance amends the health code to revise regulation of massage practitioners, establishments and out-call services. It eliminates an exemption that previously allowed businesses staffed only by massage practitioners certified by the California Massage…
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