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Entertainment Commission delays vote on rules to trigger hearings for new housing near venues
Summary
The San Francisco Entertainment Commission reviewed a draft set of criteria — including venue capacity, proximity, complaint history and project size — to decide which new residential projects must go to a public hearing; commissioners voted to continue the item for more data and a planning‑department briefing.
President Bridal Tan and staff presented a draft policy on June 2, 2015 proposing how the Entertainment Commission should be notified and when it should hold hearings on new residential development near places of entertainment. The draft would create a three‑commissioner development review committee, appointed annually and including the president (or vice president) and an urban‑planning representative, to hear projects that meet specified triggers.
The draft criteria discussed included: a capacity threshold (staff used 270 as an initial ‘‘average’’ drawn from the city’s list of places of entertainment), proximity (discussion centered on a 100‑ to 300‑foot…
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