Pacifica, CA Special Events & Permits: Commercial Filming on Public Right-of-Way (2026)

in 2019 following the state's Safe Sidewalk Vending Act, regulates where roaming and stationary vendors can operate. 09(a) protects any 'city-sponsored or city-permitted temporary or special event' with a 300-foot vending exclusion zone measured from the event's borders, running from one hour before the event to one hour after it ends. ' A production company shooting on a Pacifica street or at Rockaway Beach or the Pier under a city film or encroachment permit therefore locks out sidewalk vendors from the same 300-foot radius for the duration of the shoot.

09(c) requires the city's Administrator to keep the filming permit's boundary description on file and to make it available to vendors on request, so the exclusion zone tracks the specific footprint approved for that shoot rather than a citywide rule. The same 300-foot buffer separately protects certified farmers' markets and swap meets during their operating hours under subsection (b). Because the buffer is a vending restriction, not a filming restriction, it does not require film crews to obtain anything beyond their existing city permit; it instead limits where competing sidewalk commerce can set up nearby.