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Entertainment Commission hears proposed 'Permit SF' code updates and plan to end SF GovTV live streams

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The commission heard staff briefings on a mayoral legislative package to modernize permitting for entertainment uses, and on a separate budget-driven decision that will end SF GovTV live streaming of hearings starting mid‑July.

The San Francisco Entertainment Commission on Tuesday heard a staff report on a package of proposed changes to municipal permitting that staff said had been announced earlier the same day at a mayoral press conference and will appear on Legistar later this week.

The director told commissioners the package, described as part of the citywide Permit SF effort, contains a set of code updates intended to “simplify, expedite, and modernize permitting” for entertainment uses. Staff highlighted several changes that would affect the commission’s work, including removing referral requirements to the Department of Building Inspection for place-of-entertainment and extended-hours permits, removing referral to Planning for limited live performance and fixed-place outdoor amplified-sound permits, and updating public-notice language to replace the outdated term “leafleting” with “written…

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