2.23.020 Definitions.
The following definitions shall apply to this chapter:
A. “Applicant” means the authorized agent of the organizer who completes the application and acts as primary contact for the special event.
B. “Event participant” means a person in attendance at an event, including spectators, vendors, event staff, and city staff.
C. “Parade” means any organized group marching or in a procession, whether on foot, animal, or vehicle.
D. “Permit” means written governmental permission issued by an authorized official, empowering the holder thereof to do some act not forbidden by law but not allowed without such authorization.
E. “Private event” means an event which uses public property or the public right-of-way for the purpose of monetary or personal gain by any person, partnership, group, organization, company or corporation or which is closed to the general public or on private property where the event has potential to substantially impact traffic or public services.
F. “Public event” means an event which is open to the public and does not meet the definition of private event.
G. “Special event” means any function or gathering that is to be conducted on public property, on public rights-of-way, or on private property that will generate or invite considerable public participation and/or spectators, and may have an impact on transportation, public services or public safety, for a particular and limited purpose and time, including but not limited to:
1. Fun runs, roadway foot races, fundraising walks, bike-a-thons, car shows, parades, carnivals, shows or exhibitions, filming/movies, circuses, block parties, auctions and fairs.
2. Planned events in a park or other public place if the event use requires or organizer requests the city to provide any public services in addition to those that would normally be provided in the absence of the event.
3. Events on private property involving an open invitation to the public to attend or events where the attendance is by private invitation and are expected to have occupant load exceeding 300 are presumed to be events that will have a direct substantial impact on the public streets, rights-of-way or emergency services, and the city reserves the right to require other permits and/or compliance with additional requirements, including but not limited to occupancy limits and requirements of building, fire, and health and safety codes, to insure that the impacts on the public streets, rights-of-way or emergency services are adequately addressed.
4. Events involving political or religious activity intended primarily for the communication or expression of ideas.
H. “Substantial impact” means an outcome indicated when an event would preclude in whole or in significant part the public’s normal and customary use of a park, public place, public sidewalk, driveway or roadway.
I. “Substantial public services” means a material increase in the amount, scope or level of necessary fire, police, traffic control, crowd control, or other public resources above those that would normally be required without the event; with respect to police resources, “substantial public services” means resources for crowd management or traffic control required for the event. It also includes instances where fire and emergency services department personnel are impacted by the volume of participants, or when environmental conditions are such that the impact to the crowds would be anticipated and that these conditions would reduce the effectiveness of on duty personnel requiring the recall of sufficient personnel to assist the participants as well as maintaining the required level of service to the city.
J. “Use” means to construct, erect or maintain in, on, over or under any street, right-of-way, park or other public place, building, structure, sign, equipment or scaffolding, or to alter any public right-of-way by painting, spraying or writing on the surface thereof, or to otherwise occupy in such a manner as to obstruct the normal public use of any public street, right-of-way, park or other public place within the city, including a use related to special events. (Ord. 6557 § 1, 2015.)