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Commission hears police-code and planning-code reforms to ease permits, waive fees for pandemic-era programs
Summary
Staff presented proposed police-code reforms to streamline entertainment permitting: fee waivers for businesses transitioning from pandemic JAM permits, expanded limited-live performance definitions, removal of some referral requirements, elimination of outdated masked-ball and arcade language, and a prospective exemption for routine school activities; proposals will proceed to Budget & Finance and Land Use Committee review.
San Francisco Entertainment Commission staff outlined proposed local police-code reforms on Sept. 20 designed to reduce administrative barriers for small businesses and streamline entertainment permitting.
Director Maggie Weiland and Ben Van Houten described a package of changes that would allow the Commission to waive initial application and license fees for businesses moving from pandemic-era JAM (Just Add Music) permits to permanent brick-and-mortar entertainment permits, with reimbursement from the Office of…
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