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Portable restrooms to be required for events longer than six hours, committee decides
Summary
After weighing attendee-count triggers, the Committee rejected 500- and 100-person thresholds and adopted a duration-based rule: events exceeding six hours must provide portable restrooms and handwashing stations; display events are excluded.
Committee members debated whether to trigger portable restroom and handwashing requirements by attendance or duration. The Committee rejected a 500-person attendance threshold as too high and a 100-person threshold as potentially burdensome to routine gatherings.
Members agreed on a duration-based trigger: portable restrooms and handwashing stations will be mandatory for any event exceeding six hours, with 'display' events excluded from the requirement. The decision balances public-health needs for long events with concerns about imposing costly requirements on short or small gatherings.
