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Committee delays DPH standard deadline and forwards ordinance to update health rules for adult venues
Summary
The committee accepted an amendment to push the deadline for new minimum health and safety standards for commercial adult venues to Jan. 1, 2021, and forwarded the ordinance to the full Board. Sponsor emphasized the measure is intended to modernize AIDS-era rules and help venues participate in economic recovery when safe; public commenters from the AIDS Foundation supported the change.
On July 9 the Public Safety & Neighborhood Services Committee voted to accept an amendment and forward to the Board an ordinance directing the Department of Public Health to adopt minimum health and safety standards for commercial adult venues while prohibiting standards that require monitoring of patrons’ private activities or mandate locked private rooms.
Chair Rafael Mandelmann framed the ordinance as updating regulations…
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