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Entertainment Commission: new state COVID guidance tightens small-outdoor gathering rules; staff report on JAM permit enforcement
Summary
The San Francisco Entertainment Commission on Oct. 6 received an update on new state COVID-19 guidance that narrows allowable small outdoor gatherings and discussed enforcement actions after 53 noise complaints since September, including mitigation with several businesses and a plan to improve permit application guidance.
The San Francisco Entertainment Commission heard a briefing Oct. 6 on recent state guidance that will restrict how the city issues JAM permits for outdoor entertainment and on enforcement activity responding to neighborhood noise complaints.
Executive Director Wyland told the commission a revised Stay Safer at Home health order and related state directives now prohibit multiple simultaneous small outdoor gatherings at the same site and limit small gatherings to people from no more than three households. Wyland said the city’s prior guidance allowed up to 12 people for small outdoor gatherings (or 6 if food or drink was present) and that the new rules increase the total-capacity number in some cases but make the household-limit more…
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