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City’s Street Activity Permit Office outlines rules, moratorium and new eApply features for Queens events
Summary
The Street Activity Permit Office (SAPO) presented permit categories, deadlines and new CEMS/eApply features to Queens community board members, explained a moratorium on multi-block street festivals since February 2007, and agreed to follow up on several technical and outreach issues raised by boards.
Don Tolson, executive director of Citywide Event Coordination and Management (CECM), told Queens Borough Cabinet members that the office issues permits for street, sidewalk, curb-lane and plaza activities and coordinates with city, state and federal partners on large events.
"Citywide Event Coordination and Management, we are the office of the mayor that works with all of the agencies ... to pull together and support all types of events that occur citywide," Tolson said during the presentation.
The Street Activity Permit Office (SAPO) staff described the city’s permit categories (block parties, street events of varying sizes, plaza events, single-block festivals, and street festivals), key deadlines and fee differences by borough, and new features in the CEMS/eApply applicant and reviewer databases used by community boards to comment on permit requests.
SAPO staff emphasized that block parties remain the most-permitted activity and still require a 90-day filing window; they said single-block street fairs are the only SAPO category that may sell goods, while…
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