[Amended 5-10-2010 by Ord. No. 16-2010; 6-27-2011 by Ord. No. 30-2011; 10-28-2013 by Ord. No. 49-2013; 4-25-2022 by Ord. No. 32-2022]
The City's Police Traffic Office or the Reading Recreation Commission may issue a permit, where applicable, when:
A. An application is successfully completed and filed in accordance with this Part; and
B. All of the following conditions are satisfied:
(1) The event will not substantially interrupt the safe and orderly movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
(2) The event will not require the diversion of police officers, Fire Department personnel or other department employees so as to significantly impact the City departments' ability to respond appropriately to regular City duty throughout the remainder of the community.
(3) The concentration of persons, animals, vehicles, or things at the staging and disbanding areas, as well as along the event or street activity route, will not unduly interfere with the movement of police, fire, ambulance, and other emergency vehicles on the streets.
(4) The event is not being conducted for an unlawful purpose, nor will it violate any ordinance of the City or any other applicable law.
(5) The event will not substantially interfere with any other event for which an event permit has already been issued; nor shall it substantially interfere with the provision of City services in support of other scheduled events or unscheduled government functions.
(6) The event will not have any unmitigated adverse impact upon residential or business access and traffic circulation in the same general venue.
(7) All sponsor(s), participants, and attendees at events are subject to all laws, ordinances, and regulations not specifically exempted by the special event permit or the community event site reservation permit, including but not limited to noise volume, disorderly conduct, and intoxication. Police, fire and code officers may order the shutdown of a special event, block party, community site reservation or a recreation facility/ site reservation that becomes disorderly or hazardous.