RHI Resources

Cutting Edge Resources for Safe and Vibrant Nightlife 

RHI Resource is your direct link to regularly updated tools and tactics on the nighttime economy. Stay current on the latest nightlife strategies with news updates, a monthly Networker e-newsletter, and RHI’s compilation of innovative approaches and promising practices, Planning, Managing and Policing Hospitality Zones: A Practical Guide.  

Tools and Resources are Featured in the Following Tracks:  

  • Music and Entertainment: Public policies and economic incentives that support local performers and venues for a vibrant and authentic local music and entertainment industry.

  • Service, Security and Safety: Proactive management of internal safety within bars, nightclubs and live entertainment venues to prevent service to minors, over-service and intoxication through security techniques, harm reduction best practices and peer-to-peer mentorship.

  • Multi-use Sidewalks: Balancing a mix of vibrant outdoor activity from vendors, street entertainers, sidewalk cafes, and kiosks while complying with ADA regulations and addressing panhandling impacts.

  • Community Policing: Reducing closing time risks through specialized policing strategies for entertainment districts, greater inter-agency collaboration and proactive intervention to ensure greater regulatory and enforcement compliance.

  • Integrated Late-night Transportation: Extended hours and more coordinated public and private transport services to match demand from the nighttime workforce and patrons in order to increase traffic safety, reduce impaired driving and provide more efficient district access and egress.   

  • Quality of Life: Zoning, codes, nighttime allocation of public services and social marketing on patron responsibility to better manage noise, litter, trash and disorder impacts in mixed-use districts with residential and commercial activity.  

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