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Pasco staff proposes streamlined special-events rules to reduce red tape and focus on risk drivers
Summary
Staff recommended recategorizing event types, removing the small-yard-sale permit, offering umbrella permits for repeat venues (for example the flea market), and using risk rubrics instead of a fixed 1-per-100 security requirement; councilmembers and staff emphasized balancing ease of permitting with public-safety and neighborhood impacts.
City staff and consultant Framework presented an audit of Pasco’s special-events permitting on Aug. 25 and proposed a more streamlined approach that separates public-space events from private-property events, removes low-value yard-sale permits, and replaces a fixed security staffing formula with…
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