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Keep Chinatown Open! Chinatown street closures harm local merchants and residents.

Chinatown street closures are disguised as "supporting the community" but in reality, these events disturb hundreds of residents and drive business away from local, rent-paying merchants. Instead, street closures support outside performers and vendors who use these closures to profit from our community at our expense.

These street closures:

• disturb local, rent-paying residents;
• draw business away from local, rent-paying merchants;
• impede access to our neighborhood for residents, merchants, and customers alike, particularly for those with disabilities;
• create noise pollution (often exceeding city ordinances), causing an undue burden on our community;
• generate excess garbage, dirtying our streets.

Furthermore, community outreach from the City and the various applicants regarding planned street closures has been severely lacking, with impacted residents and merchants receiving either last-minute or no notice of permit hearings. The exclusion of our community in the decision process — due to the language barrier and for the sake of administrative expediency — is discriminatory and unjust.

These street closures were introduced during COVID when businesses weren't able to host customers safely indoors, however times have changed — street closures no longer serve our community and instead negatively impact daily life and business for residents and merchants alike.

SIGN THIS PETITION to help us tell the City: Keep Chinatown Open!

THEN, TAKE THE NEXT STEP — Lend your voice at our appeal hearing:

On March 19th, 2024, the San Francisco Entertainment Commission approved LionDanceME's permit to close three blocks of Grant Avenue for lion dancing. The drumming from this event creates dramatically heightened noise levels (exceeding 100dB); at this level, NIOSH guidelines state that risk of hearing damage or loss can begin in as little as 15 minutes of exposure, yet the applicant has been approved to perform for 9 hours per day, both days of every weekend, for an entire year. This poses a serious public health risk to our community, as well as a significant disruption to residents, businesses, and community accessibility. Even after the applicant received emphatic community opposition just days earlier at a March 13th meeting, the permit was unanimously approved by the Entertainment Commission on March 19th, citing "no community opposition".

We have submitted an appeal and the permit is now temporarily suspended. Come lend your voice at our APPEAL HEARING:

Wed, April 17th, 5:00pm, San Francisco City Hall, Room 416

... and help us tell the City to Keep Chinatown Open!

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保持唐人街開放！ 唐人街街道的關閉損害了當地商人和居民的利益。

唐人街的街道封鎖偽裝成“支持社區”，但實際上，這些事件擾亂了數百名居民，並導致當地支付租金的商家失去生意。 相反，封鎖街道是為外來的表演者和供應商提供支持，他們利用這些封鎖從我們的社區中獲利，而我們付出了代價。

這些街道關閉：

• 打擾當地付租居民；
• 將業務從當地支付租金的商人手中奪走；
• 阻礙居民、商人和顧客（特別是殘疾人）進入我們的社區；
• 造成噪音污染（通常超出城市法規），對我們的社區造成不必要的負擔；
• 產生過多的垃圾，弄髒我們的街道。

此外，市政府和各申請者對計劃關閉街道的社區外展工作嚴重缺乏，受影響的居民和商人要么在最後一刻收到許可聽證會通知，要么沒有收到許可聽證會的通知。 由於語言障礙和行政權宜之計，將我們的社區排除在決策過程之外是歧視性和不公正的。

這些街道關閉是在新冠肺炎疫情期間，當時企業無法在室內安全地接待顧客時實施的，但時代已經改變——街道關閉不再為我們的社區服務，反而對居民和商家的日常生活和業務產生了負面影響。

簽署此請願書，幫助我們告訴市政府：保持唐人街開放！

然後，採取下一步 - 在我們的上訴聽證會上表達您的意見：

2024 年 3 月 19 日，舊金山娛樂委員會批准了 LionDanceME 的許可，關閉都板街的三個街區進行舞獅表演。 這次活動的鼓聲造成噪音水平急劇升高（超過 100 分貝）； 在這個層面上，NIOSH 指南指出，聽力損傷或喪失的風險可能在接觸暴露短短 15 分鐘後就開始出現，但申請人已被批准全年每天工作 9 小時，每個週末兩天。 這給我們的社區帶來了嚴重的公共衛生風險，並對居民、企業和社區的可及性造成了嚴重干擾。 即使申請人在幾天前的 3 月 13 日會議上遭到了社區的強烈反對，該許可證仍於 3 月 19 日獲得娛樂委員會的一致批准，理由是「沒有社區反對」。

我們已提出上訴，許可證現已暫時中止。 請在我們的上訴聽證會上發表您的意見：

4 月 17 日星期三下午 5:00，舊金山市政廳，416 室

....並幫助我們告訴市政府保持唐人街開放！