Another Planet's president told the SF Standard he's dreaming of Beyoncé and Bad Bunny in Golden Gate Park. The document underneath is a just-approved permit for a second August weekend — and a fight over whether the city is charging enough.

Allen Scott, Another Planet Entertainment's president of concerts and festivals, told the SF Standard this month that he's dreaming of Beyoncé, BTS, Karol G, or Bad Bunny playing Golden Gate Park. The interview, timed to Outside Lands' 18th year, read as founder color. The document underneath it is more concrete: on July 14, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors approved a permit letting APE stage a second annual August concert weekend in the park, beginning in 2027.

Here are the terms the dream lineup rests on. The permit runs three years — through 2029 — and is extendable to nine, to 2035, per the Rec & Park Commission materials. It caps paid attendance at 60,000 a day, per the legislation filed with the Board. And it carries the same rent structure APE pays for concerts now: between $1.53 million (two-day) and $2.295 million (three-day) a year, or 5% of gross revenue, whichever is greater. Scott framed that floor as the city's protection: "We guarantee the city makes a certain amount of money whether we throw them or not."

The number is exactly what residents are contesting. In a letter to the Richmond/Sunset News, David Romano estimated a sold-out two-day event could gross roughly $27.6 million at festival ticket prices — against the $1.53 million floor the city is guaranteed. That math is his, not the city's, but it names the gap: a percentage-or-floor deal only pays the city more than the floor if gross runs past about $30 million. The prior two August years generated $2.9 million in permit fees combined, per CBS.

The precedent is last August's Dead & Company shows — roughly 60,000 a night, and, per Pollstar and local police, more than 100 noise complaints and 145 seized nitrous-oxide canisters. The Planning Association for the Richmond objects that neighbors would now absorb three disrupted weekends in a row. According to the Richmond/Sunset News, Supervisor Connie Chan cast the lone dissenting vote.

What isn't settled: the full roll call, whether APE exercises the extension to 2035, and the exact 2027 dates. The dream acts are unbooked. The contract is signed.