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S.F. committee pauses vote on planning-code changes for massage businesses
Summary
The Land Use & Transportation Committee heard amendments that would let massage businesses operate where health services are allowed, add sole practitioners to the health-services definition, and ban personal-service reuse for three years after code-related closures. The committee adopted amendments and continued the item one week for final City Attorney wording.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Nov. 29 took up an ordinance that would change where massage businesses can operate in the city and how they are regulated.
The proposal, sponsored by legislation from Supervisor Hillary Ronan and presented by Amy Beinart, would amend the planning code to allow massage businesses that meet permitting and public-health requirements to open in commercial zones where other health services are permitted and would classify sole practitioners under "health services" rather than "massage establishments." Beinart said the change is intended to "make it easier for local…
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