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San Francisco staff outline Plaza Program to support local plaza stewardship and limited live performances
Summary
City staff proposed a new Plaza Program (Administrative Code Chapter 94) to support community stewards for public plazas, streamline event permitting, and add limited live-performance rules to the police code; officials said stewards would reinvest any plaza revenue into maintenance and programming.
Ken Rich of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development presented a proposal to the San Francisco Entertainment Commission to establish a formal Plaza Program and companion code changes that would make plazas eligible for a limited live-performance framework.
The plan would create Administrative Code Chapter 94 to define program structure, add supporting amendments to the planning and public-works codes, and change the police code to treat certain plazas as "limited live-performance locales." Rich said the program is intended to "activate local plazas and public spaces and enhance their public realms," and that participating plazas would be stewarded by community groups selected…
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