San Anselmo council votes to keep Live on the Avenue as two-night street-closure series

San Anselmo’s Town Council voted to keep the popular Live on the Avenue summer music series on the downtown thoroughfare as a two-night event, approving the Parks & Recreation Commission and staff recommendation known as Option B.

The council’s decision came after a staff presentation summarizing outreach — including a community survey with 455 responses and a business survey with 36 responses — and a public-safety briefing by Captain Hamid Khalili of Central Marin Police. Kat Austin Alexander, chair of the Parks and Recreation Commission, told the council the commission voted overwhelmingly in favor of keeping both Friday and Saturday street closures and highlighted that 83 percent of survey respondents preferred the two-night format.

Staff and the commission had offered two principal paths: Option A, a hybrid model with a single-night full street closure and a second night with programming centralized in the plaza; and Option B, continuation of full street closures both…