A special event permit will be issued if the City Manager, or his designee, finds that the following standards for issuance of a special event permit are met:
(A) The special event will not unnecessarily interrupt the safe and orderly movement of traffic near its location or route.
(B) The special event will not require the diversion of such a number of police officers to properly police the special event locale or line of movement and the adjacent areas as to prevent adequate police protection for the remainder of the city.
(C) The concentration of people, animals, and vehicles at assembly points will not unduly interfere with proper fire and police protection or ambulance service to areas near such assembly points or the city.
(D) A parade is scheduled to move from its point of origin to its point of termination without unreasonable delays in route.
(E) Other licenses and permits, restrictions, regulations, fees for the city services, safeguards or other conditions deemed necessary by individual city departments for the safe and orderly conduct of a special event are requested, submitted, and approved (i.e., health permit applications, agreement with Police Department for police coverage, agreement with Public Works Department regarding cost associated with street closure, and the like).
(F) A proper application for issuance of a special event permit has been received with all necessary information and no grounds for denial of an application as hereinafter specified exist.
(G) The use of amplification devices in the requested special event will not result in unreasonably loud noise in violation of the city’s noise ordinance, Ord. 108-2008; or if such amplification devices may result in noise levels in excess of those allowed under said ordinance, the City Manager or his designee finds that:
(1) The use of amplification devices otherwise in violation of the city’s noise ordinance within the context of the special event requested will not unduly deprive the public of safe, comfortable, convenient and peaceful enjoyment of public streets, parks, businesses or residences adjacent to the parameters of the special event; and
(2) The use of amplification equipment otherwise in violation of the Ashland noise ordinance within the context of the special event requested will not unduly interfere with the usual and customary operation of a school, church or place of worship, or courthouse; and
(3) The use of amplification devices otherwise in violation of the city noise ordinance within the context of the special event requested will not unduly interfere with the conduct of another previously approved special event.
(Ord. 157, 2020, passed 11-20-20; Am. Ord. 103, 2022, passed 6-10-22)