San Francisco Board of Supervisors implements restrictions on Tenderloin business hours

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave final and unanimous approval Tuesday for a pilot program that will limit the hours retail businesses can operate in the Tenderloin neighborhood.

All retail food and tobacco businesses, excluding restaurants and bars, will be banned from operating between midnight and 5 a.m. in a section of the neighborhood during the two-year pilot. The program will apply to a 20-block section between O'Farrell and McAllister streets and between Polk and Jones streets, designated as a 'high-crime area.' Effectively, the ordinance chops just two hours off the business day, since businesses are already not permitted to operate between 2 a.m.

The program, which got initial approval from supervisors last month, comes in response to 'the high rate of drug-related crime in the Tenderloin,' according to the ordinance, which leads many in the neighborhood to believe they face health and safety risks. A petition in support of the legislation was submitted with 521 signatures of Tenderloin residents and community organizations. One of the organizations that collected signatures was the Tenderloin Housing Clinic.

 

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