It’s unclear how long Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ dusk-to-dawn curfew will continue to encircle a one-square-mile area, as scattered protests continue downtown — though much smaller than the massive “No Kings” marches on Saturday.

The City Council will weigh in on the curfew at its next meeting. And some downtown business folks, meanwhile, are starting to push back on the rules.

Council members are scheduled to meet on Tuesday, June 17, to consider extending the curfew covering a one-square-mile zone that Bass enacted in response to vandalism and looting during protests over the Trump administration’s amped-up immigration-enforcement raids.

The council will discuss the mayor’s declaration and take potential steps to ratify and extend it.

Bass had said there was no “termination date” for the curfew during a Friday news conference. She reported that it was “making a difference” in curtailing criminal activity.

Protests erupted on June 6 after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents began detaining migrants in the city. While most demonstrations have remained peaceful, police and city officials said that some gatherings turned destructive after dark, with looting and vandalism blamed on so-called “bad actors.”‘

On the fifth day of protests, Mayor Bass declared a local emergency in downtown and imposed a curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m.

“We are hoping that if the cause of the turmoil ends, which is stopping the raids, then I can almost guarantee you that curfew will go away,” Bass previously said.

Bass eased some corners of the rules since then, including allowing some theatrical performances within the city’s dusk-to-dawn curfew area to return to the stage.

“The Los Angeles Mayor’s Office has updated guidance on the downtown L.A.-area curfew and has granted an exception to allow individuals with tickets to an indoor venue to attend that event as scheduled,” said a statement released by the group that manages performances at the L.A. Music Center.

But multiple downtown business and resident groups are hoping the curfew will be lifted immediately.

The Social District (South Park business improvement district) encouraged residents to ask city leaders to consider how businesses are still impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and could face detrimental repercussions if there is a continued “perception that all of Downtown Los Angeles is overrun with bad actors when we know this to not be true.”

“While the damage from looting was clear and observable, the harm to restaurants and their staffs caused by loss of patronage is equally damaging,” the group said in a letter to city leaders.

“Policy in response to civil unrest has to strike a balance between the potential losses from property damage and looting, and the ongoing loss realized by workers and businesses as a result of the curfew,” it said. “After hearing from our stakeholders, I believe we have reached a tipping point where the latter will have a greater economic impact than the former.”

Meanwhile, the DLTA Residents Association surveyed its members, finding 84% do not want the 8 p.m. curfew to continue. The survey found 43% of residents want the curfew to end outright, while another 41% support phasing it out, starting with bumping it up to 10 p.m. Only 9% of those surveyed want to keep the 8 p.m. curfew as is, according to DTLA RA.

The group said it shared the survey results in a letter to city leaders, which also noted that protests and disruptions downtown “will inevitably continue to ratchet up over the next four years and our quality of life and local economy is already suffering as it is.”

“Many residents do feel like the curfew was an effective tool in response to Monday’s serious looting and unrest, and that it likely was helpful yesterday given the crowd size and broader context, but moving forward, the damage will far outweigh the good for our community,” Cassy Horton, co-founder of the DTLA RA said in the letter.

Some performances in the curfew area were postponed over the weekend, amid concern raised by the “No Kings” protests inspired by President Donald Trump’s military parade on Saturday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the creation of the U.S. armed forces. But most evening performances were expected to return to stages this week at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

The Broad museum, closed over the weekend, was expected to reopen Tuesday.

Other exemptions from the curfew:

— First responders and public-safety workers.

— People who live in the curfew area.

— Workers in the area, including construction crews and utility crews.

— Media representatives with credentials.

— Homeless people.

National Guard and Marine Corps in the area remain under the guidance of Trump, who federalized and deployed them over the weekend amid community demonstrations against stepped-up federal immigration enforcement operations.

Bass and community leaders took issue Thursday with suggestions by Trump and others that the entire city was under a siege of violence necessitating deployment of the military, including the 4,000 federalized National Guard troops and 700 active-duty U.S. Marines.

Despite ongoing community protests, immigration raids were expected to continue this week in the Southland amid Trump administration guidance focusing on cities run by elected Democrats, while cutting back on enforcement at farms, hotels and restaurants.

“ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History,” Trump posted Sunday on Truth Social, his social media platform.

“In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs a

Meanwhile, protesters returned to the streets of downtown Southern California on Sunday, one day after a nationwide series of demonstrations against Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and other policies drew massive crowds to the Civic Center and communities throughout Southern California and the nation.

Staff writer Teresa Liu and City News Service contributed to this report