This resolution allows Another Planet Entertainment LLC to hold a ticketed concert at the Golden Gate Park Polo Fields for three years after the Outside Lands Festival, with a minimum permit fee of $1.4 million for two days and $2.1 million for three days, while also requiring three free concerts each year. It also confirms that the event is exempt from certain environmental review requirements.
Resolution authorizing the Recreation and Park Department to issue a permit for Another Planet Entertainment LLC to hold a ticketed concert at the Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday following the Outside Lands Festival in 2024, 2025 and 2026, in exchange for a minimum permit fee $1,400,000 per year for a two-day event and $2,100,000 for a three-day event for a three-year term to commence in 2024, and a commitment to hold three free musical concerts per year, for each year in which concerts are held at the Polo Fields; affirming a categorical exemption under the California Environmental Quality Act; and to authorize the General Manager of the Recreation and Park Department to enter into amendments or modifications to the permit that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the City and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the permit or this Resolution.
How it got here
A formal position or approval by the Board: Allow the Recreation and Park Department to issue an amended permit allowing Another Planet Entertainment to hold ticketed concerts at the Golden Gate Park Polo Field, to take place on the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday either following or preceding the Outside Lands Festival in 2027, 2028 and 2029, in exchange for a minimum permit fee of $1,530,000 per year for two-day events and $2,295,000 per year for three-day events through 2029, and with options to extend the permit until 2035 and with increased minimum permit fees during any such extensions.
