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Daly City council introduces ordinance to allow state-authorized "entertainment zones" for monitored outdoor alcohol at events
Summary
City staff presented a local ordinance to implement SB 969, enabling defined, event-based "entertainment zones" where licensed vendors may serve alcohol under strict controls; council closed the public hearing and moved to introduce the ordinance after questions about safety, age verification and oversight.
Daly City's City Council on Feb. 9 conducted a public hearing and moved to introduce a local ordinance that would create a framework for “entertainment zones” under state law SB 969, allowing limited, temporary outdoor alcohol consumption inside defined event boundaries.
City special projects manager Maybelle Mano told the council the ordinance is intended "about legal compliance, public safety and economic competitiveness, not expanding alcohol access broadly." She said zones would require defined geographic boundaries, limited days and hours, approved container types, strict age-verification protocols, police coordination and event-specific zone management plans. Zones would be suspendable or revocable if…
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