{"id":35257,"date":"2024-08-01T12:20:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=35257"},"modified":"2024-08-01T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:20:33","slug":"yet-more-outdoor-downtown-entertainment-zone-parties-could-be-coming-under-new-legislation-from-aaron-peskin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/yet-more-outdoor-downtown-entertainment-zone-parties-could-be-coming-under-new-legislation-from-aaron-peskin\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet More Outdoor Downtown \u2018Entertainment Zone\u2019 Parties Could Be Coming Under New Legislation From Aaron Peskin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

31 JULY 2024\/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT<\/a>\/JOE KUKURA<\/a> (SFist.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As San Francisco tries to party its way out of the lack of foot traffic and the office vacancy problem downtown, Supervisor Aaron Peskin has introduced a measure that would streamline the permitting process to create more outdoor parties.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s no secret that downtown San Francisco has absolutely not recovered<\/a> from the pandemic, as foot traffic remains way lower than pre-2020 levels. Small businesses in the downtown area are suffering<\/a>, so Mayor Breed and SF City Hall have tried a mix of strategies like the Vacant to Vibrant pop-ups<\/a>, night markets<\/a>, and downtown \u201centertainment zones\u201d<\/a> where restaurants and bars can sell to-go alcohol when there are street events happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor Aaron Peskin, whose District 3 covers much of downtown, wants more of these outdoor events downtown and a simpler permitting process to throw them. The Chronicle reports that Peskin is introducing legislation to streamline the outdoor event permitting process downtown<\/a>, so that downtown community benefit districts (CBDs) can more easily host recurring outdoor street parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis legislation came directly from the community of Downtown stakeholders who have worked so hard to be a part of the City\u2019s economic recovery, but still struggle with the slow pace and confusing duplicative nature of our permitting systems,\u201d Peskin said in a statement. \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be this hard to have a First Thursday art walk or regular block party, especially in neighborhoods that don\u2019t have the same residential density that might necessitate more review. These downtown community benefit districts are already doing the work to program these events, we just have to make it easier, bigger and bolder if we want Downtown to come alive more than once a month.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His legislation is called the Greater Downtown Master Permit program, and it would create about a dozen more of those boozy \u201centertainment zones.\u201d Each would be required to throw 30 events a year, but in return, they would get so-called \u201cmaster permits\u201d that would be good for five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a real change for the current process where each individual event requires permits from a number of city agencies. And the supervisors have already approved $2.75 million to help the CBDs throw these events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImagine what we can accomplish for San Francisco just by creatively streamlining clunky government processes,\u201d president and CEO of the Downtown SF Partnership Robbie Silver said in the announcement (Downtown SF is the organization behind those holiday season projection mapping displays<\/a> on buildings). \u201cSupervisor Peskin\u2019s first-in-the-nation legislation does just that, by prioritizing downtown recovery through regular programming and activation in under-utilized alleys and side streets. It goes beyond temporary pop-ups to expand Entertainment Zones, cut red tape for small businesses, and anchor arts and culture through real investments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is still just a proposal, and the Board of Supervisors won\u2019t take up the legislation until the return from their summer recess in September<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in the meanwhile, there\u2019s one of these events this week as Downtown First Thursdays<\/a> returns to Second Street (between Market and Howard streets) on Thursday, August 1 from 5-10 pm. This month’s party features a DJ set from Vandelux<\/a>, who\u2019s playing next weekend\u2019s Outside Lands<\/a>, and this month’s event is  being billed as a sort of Outside Lands pre-party<\/a>. It\u2019s free to attend, though an RSVP is required<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related: <\/strong>Wiener Proposes New Downtown Booze Zones Where You Can Walk Around With To-Go Drinks [SFist]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

31 JULY 2024\/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT\/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) Image: @miyagawa via Twitter As San Francisco tries to party its way out of the lack of foot traffic and the office vacancy problem downtown, Supervisor Aaron Peskin has introduced a measure that would streamline the permitting process to create more outdoor parties.  … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35260,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35257\/revisions\/35260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}