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Planning Department outlines 'Places for People' permit to streamline tactical urbanism
Summary
City planning staff presented a legislative package to consolidate permits for parklets, plazas and temporary street activations into a single 'Places for People' permit to reduce interagency silos, increase predictability, and improve stewardship and monitoring in underserved neighborhoods.
Planning Department staff on April 21 outlined a legislative package to create a unified 'Places for People' permitting process to make tactical urbanism projects — parklets, plazas and temporary street activations — easier to apply for and manage.
"The central premise of Pavement to Parks has always been about nurturing the grassroots in the short term with demonstrations and experiments in order to bring about longer term institutional change," Robin Abad, City Design Group staff, told the commission.…
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