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Council approves ordinance introduction to let city manager extend park hours after amendment for staff consultation
Summary
Council introduced an amendment to the municipal code allowing the city manager to extend park hours past sunset for permitted activities, adding a council‑notification rule and an amendment requiring consultation with appropriate staff after residents urged stronger oversight.
The Southgate City Council on March 24 introduced an ordinance that would modify municipal code section 7.49.150 to permit the city manager to extend park hours for permitted activities at parks without buildings, with limits and reporting requirements.
Acting Parks and Recreation Director Tina Del Rosa told the council most Southgate parks currently close at sunset and the proposed changes would allow permitted programming at passive parks to continue past sunset — but not past 10 p.m. — without full council action for each event. She described a specific request from Street Soccer USA to keep the fields at Hollydale Regional Park open later to host practices and programs that would otherwise be limited by a dusk‑to‑dawn rule.
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