For purposes of this subchapter the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
SPECIAL EVENT. Any meeting, activity, gathering, or group of persons, animals, or vehicles, or a combination thereof, having a common purpose, design or goal (excluding any such event conducted for the primary purpose of First Amendment speech or assembly), which special event is intended to or does draw public attention, and interferes with or has the tendency to interfere with the normal flow or regulation of pedestrian or vehicular traffic upon any public facility, street, sidewalk, swale, alley, park, public recreation area or other place or building. The term shall include, but not be limited to, festivals, carnivals, concerts, parades, walks, races, fundraising sales, grand opening promotions, sidewalk sales, and similar gatherings, but shall not include demonstrations.
(Ord. 1644, passed 6-3-09)