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Committee advances Shared Spaces program with amendments to improve accessibility and oversight
Summary
The committee advanced an ordinance renaming 'Places for People' to the 'Shared Spaces' program, adopted non-substantive and accessibility-focused amendments (including an 8-foot clear path, multilingual provisions, and fee-waiver limits), and forwarded the item to the full Board as a committee report.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted July 12 to forward an ordinance restructuring the city's pandemic-era 'Places for People' program into a permanent 'Shared Spaces' program with clarified departmental roles, disability-access safeguards and new operational rules.
Chair Mirna Melgar and Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Dean Preston discussed the legislation’s evolution from an emergency pandemic tool into a formalized permitting program. The committee adopted several…
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