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Board refers park sleeping-and-cooking ordinance to committee after weeks of debate
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to send an ordinance that would ban cooking, modification of park landscapes to create shelters and sleeping in parks from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. back to committee for further work and stakeholder input.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Nov. 20 referred to committee an ordinance that would amend the Park Code to prohibit cooking in parks, prohibit modifying park landscapes to create shelters and ban sleeping in parks from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.
Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who introduced amendments and moved to refer the item, said the measure had become “very contentious” and would benefit from further negotiation with homeless advocates, the mayor’s office and other stakeholders. "It's not so much to delay it out of malice, but to see what can be worked out with all the parties," Ammiano said.
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