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City staff brief commission on proposed cannabis-event permit and pilot program
Summary
Senior analyst Dylan Rice told the Entertainment Commission about proposed Board of Supervisors legislation (transcript cites AB 20 20) to create a local cannabis-event permit, requiring state-licensed event organizers and retailers, department sign-offs, fees tiered by attendance ($500–$3,000), and a pilot launch timed for April 20. Rice encouraged stakeholders to comment at the Feb. 27 committee hearing.
Senior analyst Dylan Rice told the commission that recent state authorization enables local jurisdictions to create a temporary cannabis-event permit and that proposed Board of Supervisors legislation (cited in the transcript as AB 20 20) would give the city's Office of Cannabis local sign-off authority before state approval. Rice said the permit would cover indoor and outdoor events with cannabis sales and/or consumption and would require a state-licensed cannabis-event operator and state-licensed retailers for product sales.
Rice said other departments must sign off before the Office of Cannabis issues local approval. The roll-out would be a one-year pilot renewable at the director's discretion; staff planned to prioritize events that (1) are regularly held, (2) have prior city-issued permits, or (3) have documented unregulated cannabis activity the permit seeks to mitigate. Fees were described in tiers from $500 to $3,000 tied to projected attendance. Rice said the effective date in the draft ordinance targeted April 20 to coincide with major city events and listed supporting supervisors. He urged event producers and stakeholders to testify at the committee hearing or to contact their supervisors.
Rice also described his work maintaining a citywide master calendar of events and outreach to multiple departments to improve coordination on permitting and event notifications.
Next steps: The legislation goes to committee on February 27; stakeholders and event producers are invited to comment during the committee process.
