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Current Impacts on
Live Music Venues

      Current Impacts on Live Music Venues

Areas of concern: closure
• “first out, last back”

• ongoing costs / zero revenues

• current reopening guidelines

• uncertainty: 2021 and beyond

• consumer confidence

                           Current Impacts on Live Music Venues

Areas of concern: financial
Finances
• bridge funding relief
• long-term secure funding

Rent / tax
• CECRA
• long-term property tax stability

Insurance
• Increased premiums
• Inability to secure commercial liability insurance
                                Current Impacts on Live Music Venues

Areas of concern: public health guidelines
• City of Toronto v Province of Ontario
   • areas of responsibility and access to advocacy
• Capacity limits
   • comparison with other businesses / spaces (restaurants, casinos, places of worship, etc)
• Venue infrastructure
   • plexiglass or other barriers
   • seating arrangements
• Rapid changes / uncertainty
   • definitions of performance
   • ongoing modifications
• Exemption processes
   • City of Toronto restaurant exemption (100 to 200)
   • provincial portal
                                    Current Impacts on Live Music Venues

Province of Ontario vs. City of Toronto
   Province of Ontario           City of Toronto                          Owners/operators
• Issues orders          • Promotes regulations (e.g.                 • Understand the
   • Reopening Ontario     guidance)                                    regulations
      (A Flexible        • Supports business owners                   • Assess the risks and your
      Response to COVID-   and operators                                ability to manage those
      19) Act            • Participates in Provincial                   risks
                           discussions                                • Implement measures to
                         • Enforces                                     reduce the risk and
                         • City bylaws                                  follow the regulations
                            • By-law 541-2020 (Mask
                               bylaw)
                            • By-law 665-2020 (food
                               premises)
                               Current Impacts on Live Music Venues

Capacity Limits - O. Reg. 364/20 & By-law 665-2020
                                                                          O. Reg. 364/20 - Schedule 2
• Performing arts venues                                                  Restaurants, bars etc.
   • Outdoors: 100 guests or less                                         1. (2) A person or group under
                                                                          contract with the establishment may
   • Indoors: 50 guests or less                                           dance, sing or perform music in
                                                                          compliance with the requirements
                                                                          set out in section 11.
• Food premise (restaurant)
   • Outdoors: no max                                                     Performing arts
                                                                          11. (1) 1. The total number of
   • Indoors: 100 guests or less*                                         spectators permitted to be in the
 *subject to an Indoor Dining Capacity Exemption                          venue in which the performance or
                                                                          rehearsal takes place at any one time
                                                                          must be no more than,
 **Food premise with live music = 50 people or less**
                                                                             i. 50 spectators, if the concert,
                                                                             event or performance is indoors

                                   Current Impacts on Live Music Venues

Toronto Indoor Dining Capacity Limits Exemption

• Exemption process to increase the capacity allowance within your
  food premise, above 100 patrons.

• Online application process

• Maximum allowance is 30% capacity, up to 200

• For any person operating an adult entertainment club, billiard hall,
  eating or drinking establishment, entertainment
  establishment/nightclub or place of amusement.

                           Current Impacts on Live Music Venues

Indoor Dining Exemption - Requirements
• Satisfactory compliance with all the other requirements (O. Reg.
  364/20 and TPH Guidance for Reopening your Restaurant)

• Ability to ensure physical distancing requirements with additional
  customers

• Documented enhanced cleaning and sanitization measures

• Adequate washroom facilities

• Crowd control measures

• Previous compliance history
                           Current Impacts on Live Music Venues

Provincial Exemptions Process                                                **Different than the
                                                                               City’s exemption
• For businesses and sectors that are either:                                     process**
   • not able to reopen in Stage 3, or
   • who are experiencing significant challenges opening with restrictions in Stage 3

                                    Toronto Music Strategy
                                              https://www.ontario.ca/form/work-government-stage-3-reopening-plan

Venue infrastructure
Physical distancing
• Guests must maintain 2 metres / 6 feet from those outside their household /
  social circle
   • Consider tables / seating and other areas within the venue (e.g., washrooms)
• Performers and staff must physically distance from every other person, except:
   • if it is necessary for the performers to be closer to each other for the purposes of the
     performance or rehearsal;
   • where necessary to facilitate the purchase of admission, food or beverages; or
   • where necessary for the purposes of health and safety.

Barriers
• Singers and wind/brass musicians must be separated from spectators by
  physical barrier (e.g., plexiglass).
                                    Current Impacts on Live Music Venues

Toronto Public Health Guidance
 • COVID-19 Guidance for Indoor & Outdoor Events & Gatherings

 • COVID-19 Guidance for Reopening your Restaurant, Bar and other
   Food Service Premises

Proximity                      Duration                               Numbers
Maintain physical distancing   Limit the length of time               Reduce gathering size
& wear a mask to avoid         people are together.                   for physical distancing &
respiratory droplets
                                                                      better ventilation.

                               Current Impacts on Live Music Venues

TMAC involvement?
Assist with developing recommendations – possible examples include:

• Government of Ontario
    •   long-term financial support
    •   flexible reopening guidelines
    •   insurance concerns
    •   ban on evictions
    •   mandatory participation in OCECRA for property owners

• Government of Canada
    • extend and improve CECRA program
    • develop a permanent Canadian Live Music Fund

• City of Toronto
    • spearhead a group insurance program for Toronto live music venues

• City Council
    • make permanent the inclusion of live music venues as a category of the Creative Co-Location Facilities Tax Subclass

                                               Current Impacts on Live Music Venues

Questions / comments?

                   Current Impacts on Live Music Venues