Good afternoon, everyone.

This meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the October 7th, 2024 regular meeting of the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I am Supervisor Miranda Melgar, Chair of the Committee, joined by the Board of Supervisors President Aaron Paskin, and Vice Chair Dean Preston.

Our committee clerk today is John Carroll, and I would also like to acknowledge and thank Jaime Echeverie at uh SFGov TV for staffing this meeting and broadcasting our meeting.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcements?

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.

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Items that are acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda of October 22nd, 2024, unless otherwise stated.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

Just for the public attending today's meeting, I do intend to call item number five out of order after item number three.

Uh, we'll get done quickly, I think, uh, and then go on to item number four last.

Thank you.

Um let's go to item number one, please.

Agenda item number one is an ordinance amending the administrative code to establish two entertainment zones.

The mid-market entertainment zone on Market Street between 5th and 6th streets, with eastern boundaries at Mason on the north side of Market and at 5th Street on the south side, and western boundaries at the intersection of Golden Gate Avenue and Taylor Street on the north side of Market and 6th Street on the South Side.

And the arena entertainment zone, bounded by Warriors Away on the north, Terry A.

Francois Boulevard on the east, 16th Street on the south, and 3rd Street on the west.

The ordinance affirms the planning department's secret determination.

And Madam Chair, I have a memo from your desk requesting that this be agendized as a committee report, and it may be sent to the board meeting tomorrow, October 8th, 2024.

Great.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

And we have uh Ben Van Houten here from the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, the Night Life Initiatives Director, who's going to make a presentation.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Chair Melgar, President Peskin, Vice Chair Preston, uh Ben Van Houten from the Office of Economic and Workforce Development here to present this ordinance, which would uh create two new entertainment zones.

Um I have a short presentation that I'd like to walk through.

Um I think a lot of this is really just background on what entertainment zones are, but I'm happy to move through this quickly uh since entertainment zones have already been discussed by the this committee and by the board previously, but um uh happy to also answer any questions.

Um, entertainment zones are a new tool that are authorized by last year's SB 76 that allows the Board of Supervisors to designate areas for the uh outdoor consumption of alcoholic beverages served in uh open to go containers from restaurants and bars within the zone during special events permitted by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

And um, we're really excited about these as a tool to help generate economic recovery and activate streets.

Uh the first entertainment zone event Oktoberfest was very successful.

It was really positive for the businesses for the neighborhood, and excited to uh continue that momentum with more entertainment zones.

Um state law, only restaurants, bars, breweries, and wineries can participate in this program.

Beverages have to be served in non-metal non-glass containers, and there has to be a process to identify uh patrons that are over 21, and open beverages cannot leave the zone or be brought inside uh businesses within the zone.

And then finally, uh the creation of these entertainment zones through this ordinance would trigger a process then for our office, economic and workforce development to develop a management plan for each entertainment zone that could include additional operating requirements.

Um the goal really there is to align the management plan with other required permits, whether that's street closures, public works permitting, the ABC event permit to ensure uh holistic, safe, and successful, successful management of the zone.

This ordinance would uh create two new entertainment zones, a mid-market entertainment zone on the sidewalks on Market Street between 5th and 6th streets.

Um this is the same footprint that has had the unstaged events that Market Street Arts has been putting on over the last uh several months on on first Thursdays.

Um great events and um the opportunity to enhance events like that, other activations with an entertainment zone to support the restaurants, bars, venues on that block would be really exciting.

Um secondly, the arena entertainment zone would uh designate the entire block containing the Chase Center and Thrive City and all the public sidewalks around that block as the arena entertainment zone.

Um, and uh working closely with uh with the warriors to think about what are the Thrive City opportunities at outdoor events at Thrive City to again help uh create additional revenue opportunities for the businesses in that area and just further enliven their uh calendar, robust calendar of outdoor programming.

And um, I know I trucked through that very quickly, but happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Okay, if there are no questions or concerns, uh colleagues, let's go to public comment on this item.

Thank you, Madam Chair, land use and transportation.

We'll now hear public comment on agenda item number one related to the administrative code changes for these two entertainment zones.

If you have public comment for that item, please come forward, selector now, and you may begin.