Las Vegas city officials want to know what locals and visitors think of new street performer rules for the popular Fremont Street Experience in Downtown Las Vegas.
City officials last year enacted new rules regulating how and where street performers and buskers can perform for tourists and locals without creating a nuisance or becoming a problem.
Las Vegas City Attorney Brad Jerbic presided over the city’s first information-gathering meeting earlier this month in Las Vegas.
The new street performer rules took effect in November, amid some controversy. Proponents say some street performers had gotten out of hand and were becoming a problem on Fremont Street.
To address the problem, city officials now require street performers to register and be assigned a specified performance space, to which they are restricted for a time before being allowed to rotate to a new spot every other hour.
Downtown Las Vegas now has 38 designated performance spots, which are assigned based upon a lottery system. The new rules also limit street performances to a 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. time slot.
Some performers claim the new rules makes it harder for them to earn money, while others have said it helps to control the chaos that sometimes arose among street performers, while limiting the amount of local competition.
