(a) The director shall grant or deny a permit no later than four days after receipt of the application, unless applicant has waived the time for acting on the application in writing. The decision to grant or deny the permit shall be mailed or delivered to the applicant promptly.
(b) The director shall grant the permit when it complies with the requirements of this code and park regulations and may impose reasonable requirements and conditions concerning the use of the park by applicant based upon those requirements. The director, upon the written advice of the chief of police that the size and activity of the expected crowd would require police personnel for crowd control in numbers that will leave other areas of the city unprotected, may impose a requirement for the applicant to provide crowd control monitors. The director may require a training program for the crowd control monitors at a reasonable time and place set by the director prior to the proposed activity. The applicant shall, at the election of the chief of police, provide and pay for police personnel instead of crowd control monitors in the numbers approved by the director and chief of police in which case no training session will be required.
(c) The director may accept a substitute application and issue a permit for a park other than that applied for if a permit has already been issued for the park originally requested or if that park does not meet the applicant's needs or is otherwise unsuitable for the proposed activity. Applications for use of the same park on the same day shall be acted upon in the order received.
(d) The director shall deny the application if any of the following conditions exist:
(1) The activity applied for does not comply with the requirements of this code and park regulations;
(2) The size or nature of the proposed activity requires the diversion of so many city police officers to properly police the event as to hinder police protection in other parts of the city;
(3) The applicant has failed to agree to provide a reasonable means of informing all of the activity's participants of the terms and conditions of the permit;
(4) The applicant refuses to agree in writing to comply with the conditions of the permit;
(5) The applicant fails to file a timely application, unless waived by the director and unless applicant waives all rights of appeal.
Grounds for denial of an application shall be specified in writing.
(Ord. 4368 § 2 (part), 1996)