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Supervisors urge National Park Service to preserve Ocean Beach bonfires; accept amendments expanding city support

Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee, San Francisco Board of Supervisors · November 19, 2015
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After lengthy public comment, the committee approved a resolution urging the National Park Service to avoid fee-based permits and to protect family bonfire access at Ocean Beach; the committee accepted amendments noting city funding for cleanup, low citation counts, and opposing a four-month winter closure.

The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee voted to forward a resolution urging the National Park Service to adopt fair, accessible guidelines for beach bonfires at Ocean Beach and to avoid a fee-based permitting system that supervisors said would impose financial barriers to recreation.

Chair Eric Marr, sponsor of the resolution, said the city and community groups have long worked with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and that bonfires are a longstanding community tradition. Marr…

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