Just two days after San Francisco elected officials gathered at a South of Market nightclub to announce new legislation to increase safety for nightclub patrons, a club-goer was found stabbed just one block away.
A 25-year-old man was stabbed during a fight between the victim and five or six other men just before 2 a.m. Saturday, according to police.
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Parking lots are the latest target of efforts to quell late-night violence associated with clubgoers that’s plagued The City for the past few years.
Shootings, stabbings, fights and other violence involving nightclub patrons prompted officials to crack down on entertainment venues with measures such as requiring promoters to register with The City and giving the Entertainment Commission authority to revoke the permits of troublesome clubs.
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Following January’s temporary closure of a parking lot shared by the Exploratorium and the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco hoped to construct 23 new parking spots on a triangular plot of land at Palace Drive and Lyon Street. But neighbors of the 9,000-square-foot space were protective of the once-wooded lot.
Demanding that The City keep the land as is, they showed up to public meetings and replanted trees where pavement was about to go down.
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Several business owners around 17th and Folsom streets say they would rather keep a secured parking lot than see it developed as a new park plaza.
A coalition of 15 businesses within a one-block radius of the 220-space lot have appealed The City’s decision to allow construction of the new park without an environmental review.
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