(A) Due to inadequate supervision, some gatherings of people, such as parties, become loud and unruly to the point that they constitute a threat to the peace, health, safety and general welfare of the public. Examples of such unruly conduct include: excessive noise, excessive traffic, obstruction of public streets, public drunkenness, use of illegal drugs, the service of alcohol to minors, assaults, fights, gunshots, disturbances of the peace and litter.
(B) Gatherings where minors are present and where alcoholic beverages or illegal drugs are in the possession of, or being consumed by, minors are harmful to the community and the minors, and constitutes a public nuisance. Cal. Business and Professions Code § 25658 makes it unlawful to furnish any alcoholic beverage to a minor. Cal. Business and Professions Code § 25662 makes it unlawful for a minor to possess an alcoholic beverage in any public place.
(C) At times, the city is required to make multiple responses to loud or unruly gatherings, or gatherings where alcohol or illegal drugs are available to minors, to restore and maintain the peace and protect public safety. Such gatherings are a burden on scarce city resources and can result in delayed or reduced police responses to regular and emergency calls in the rest of the city.
(D) Police responses to such gatherings result in a disproportionate expenditure of the city's public safety resources, which are paid by the general municipal taxes paid by residents and property owners.
(E) If people are held responsible for allowing or hosting a loud or unruly gathering, or a gathering where alcohol or illegal drugs are available to minors, they will be more likely to properly supervise or stop those gatherings.
(F) The intent of this chapter is to protect the public health, peace, safety and quiet enjoyment of residential property, and to protect the public health, peace and safety in and around businesses.
(Ord. 2104-C-S, passed 5-12-15)