Golden Gate Park’s concert season is about to get longer. Neighbors aren’t thrilled 18%
By Jessica Blough57%
7/22/2026, 12:41:26 AM
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Good news, festival fans: Golden Gate Park may host more huge concerts each summer.
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a resolution allowing the Recreation and Parks Department to issue a permit to Outside Lands organizer Another Planet Entertainment, which would give it a second weekend to stage a separate musical extravaganza.
The permit would let APE book a festival the weekend before or after Outside Lands, which is held on the second weekend in August, beginning in 2027.
It allows flexibility in the date as well as the duration of the event: two to three days.
It also requires APE to host three free, public concerts in San Francisco each year, during the summer and fall.
The permit lasts three years, with the option for APE to extend it to nine years.
The company would pay between $1.53 million and $2.295 million annually to the city, or 5% of gross revenue for the concerts, whichever is greater, for the Golden Gate Park events through 2029.
If the permit is extended beyond the initial three years, the fee would increase.
Last summer, there were a trio of big productions in the park over three consecutive weekends: Dead & Company shows, Outside Lands, and a one-night concert by Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon.
The shows generated a cumulative $193 million in economic impact for San Francisco, with the most coming from Dead & Company, according to a report from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute.
Since the extra concerts began two years ago, they have brought in $2.842 million in permit fees to the city.
A concert next month has yet to be announced but is allowed by a previous agreement with APE.
The extra shows were criticized by west-side residents, who complained of loud music, parking problems, and trash.
More than 100 complaints were submitted to the city’s 311 line.
Over the course of a year, one person appears to have repeatedly submitted the same expletive-laden complaint to the line every few weeks.
A May 16 letter from Richard Rothman of the Planning Association for the Richmond to the Board of Supervisors stated that if APE chose to host a concert series before Outside Lands, the neighborhood would experience major traffic delays for three consecutive weekends: the San Francisco Marathon, the new concert, and then Outside Lands.
“These concerts are a big inconvenience to the residents of Richmond; having an uncertain date for the second concert is really a bit too much,” Rothman wrote.
Harry S.
Pariser, an Inner Sunset resident, accused APE of creating a “horrific concrete boomerang” in the park where the festival stages sit.
The new permit exempts the festivals from an environmental review.
The permit requires APE to continue to provide free Muni rides to concert attendees and to contribute an additional $10,000 to neighboring Districts 1 and 4, on top of the $30,000 it already provides.
It also requires the company to meet with neighbors to discuss the concerts’ impacts.
APE is responsible for paying for private security and for services from the San Francisco Police Department.
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