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Commission approves permit for city-run pop-up events on 18 city sites after narrow 4–3 vote
Summary
The Daytona Beach City Commission approved a resolution allowing city-sponsored pop-up events and limited mobile food vending on 18 city-owned sites, 4–3, after debate about merchant impacts on the Beachside boardwalk and whether the bandshell should be excluded.
The Daytona Beach City Commission on March 4 approved a resolution authorizing a public-use permit to allow city-sponsored pop-up events on 18 city-owned properties, after a divided discussion over potential impacts on Beachside merchants and the boardwalk.
Staff said the program is intended to activate underused public assets, including Ritchie Plaza, the bandshell-adjacent green space, a vacant city lot near Harvey and Ocean, and locations at the base of the ISB bridge. Events would generally last one day, may run up to three days, and cannot occur within 14 days of each other, staff said (staff: Speaker 10).
Commissioners and nearby business owners debated…
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