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Board adopts permanent ‘Shared Spaces’ rules after hours, enforcement and agency roles win last‑minute debate
Summary
San Francisco supervisors on July 13 adopted an amended ordinance to make the COVID‑era “shared spaces” program permanent after a lengthy debate over which agency should lead the program and whether businesses may secure curbside shared space overnight.
San Francisco supervisors on July 13 adopted an amended ordinance to make the COVID‑era “shared spaces” program — which lets businesses expand onto sidewalks and curbside parking — a permanent program, after a contentious debate over which city department should administer it and whether businesses may secure curbside shared space overnight.
The debate centered on two issues: whether Planning or the Department of Public Works (DPW) should be the coordinating agency for permitting and whether fixed commercial parklets and movable commercial parklets should be allowed to be secured overnight. Supervisor Safai proposed a suite of amendments to move administration to Planning and to allow permittees to secure curbside…
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