There are currently five “entertainment zones” with approved to-cocktail or offered in San Francisco, but the mayor Lurie is pressure for five others, to bring more street parties to Haute Octane during events where the streets are closed to traffic.
It was in January 2024 when the state senator Scott Wiener proposed its “entertainment zone” billWho might should have been qualified as an invoice as a “alcohol zone”, as this involved the legalization of alcohol sales to take away in bars and restaurants rather than any form of real entertainment. But since this bill was adopted, we have seen these entertainment areas appear On Front Street In the financial district, Outside the prosecution centerAnd In the Cole valley.
Since then, the supervisor Rafael Mandelman has offered another entertainment area Established in CastroWhile the Stephen Sherrill supervisor proposed legislation have one on union street.
Mayor Daniel Lurie just watched them and said, “Hold my beer.” The SF Business Times reports that Lurie offers Five new entertainment areas in one fell. Okay, to be fair, it is a proposal from Lurie, as well as supervisors Matt Dorsey, Jackie Fielder and Danny Sauter.
But the final result is the same, namely that these areas forced the status of entertainment zone would give their bars and restaurants the blessing of selling beer, wine and cocktails, and revelers could legally cause their containers open during events for which the streets are closed to cars.
Here is where these five new entertainment areas, if they were approved, would be located:
- Valencia Street (between 16 and 21st streets)
- Pier 39
- Ellis Street (between Stockton and Powell streets)
- Folsom Street (between the seventh and the eighth streets)
- Yerba Buena Lane and Jessie Square (between the Market and Mission streets)
The legislation should be proposed at the meeting of the Tuesday supervisor council, which does not mean that it becomes the law on Tuesday, it simply means that one or more of the above supervisors will deliver some speeches. This type of legislation generally takes about two months from the day when it is proposed until the law adopts (if it passes).
But that means that these districts may have their operating operators’ parties perhaps in early June.
Entertainment areas should not be confused with the Fashionable night markets or the monthly First FIRS troops ThursdayBut they are very similar. You can buy and transport alcoholic drinks with open contact within the events of the event, but you cannot take this drink outside the designated limits of the event, and you cannot take this drink inside an establishment. And again, these open contact parts can only occur during authorized events where the streets are closed to cars.
It is funny that Lurie announced these new entertainment areas offered a few hours after Mission Local has published a very interesting editorial called “The SF downtown recovery plan is strongly applied to the drunkenness of young people“This piece quotes the owner of House of Shields, Dennis Leary, saying that business is excellent during these take -out cocktail events, but the next day, business goes back to” tumbleweeds “.
However, it is a big day for business that bars (and their rocking staff) would not have otherwise, and therefore these entertainment zone proposals have always passed without any political opposition. But Mission Local Note which may not be the case with the Lurie plan Add 20 additional alcohol licenses to Union SquareBecause there is certainly the opposition of bars and their tilting staff who believe that things are too precarious to add a new wave of competitors at the moment.
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