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Mason County commissioners debate draft temporary outdoor public events rule; disagreement over permit threshold and zoning approach
Summary
Commissioners and staff debated a draft ordinance that would create a permitting pathway for temporary outdoor public events on private property, focusing on whether the threshold for requiring a permit should be as low as 50 people.
Mason County commissioners and staff continued debate June 2 over a draft ordinance to regulate temporary outdoor public events (TOTE), including whether to create a permitting pathway for festivals and concerts on private property and where to set a permit threshold.
Staff said current zoning rules effectively prohibit many outdoor public events on residentially zoned private property because an organizer would need thousands of attendees to qualify under the existing special-event pathway. The draft TOTE regulation would create a legal pathway so private-property owners could host events while meeting public-safety requirements such as traffic management, sewage and fire…
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