By Courtney Quirin, Mission Local
Simplicity. It’s the maxim behind many a success, and now San Francisco’s transportation agency has followed suit, streamlining the permit application for single-block party events and watching them multiply.
With some help from a nonprofit, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency trimmed the 13-page application down to three pages in 2011, and since then, the city has seen its highest number of block parties yet, with applications rising by more than 25 percent in the last two years.
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