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Trustees adopt new special‑event vendor permit and sharply raise parking fee‑in‑lieu for waived spaces
Summary
The board passed an ordinance creating a $15 special‑event vendor permit and adopted a revised fee schedule that raises the parking fee‑in‑lieu to a starting point of $12,000 per required space (with a possible sliding scale under further review). The changes aim to clarify vendor licensing and help fund future public parking.
Trustees approved an ordinance to clarify special‑event vendor regulation and passed a resolution updating the fee schedule on May 27, creating a $15 special‑event vendor permit and revising the fee‑in‑lieu for required parking spaces.
What changed: the new permit requires each vendor at a special event to submit basic business information through the event organizer and pay a $15 permit fee; the event organizer will collect vendor details as part of the event application. The town removed the outdated special‑event business license language and consolidated event‑vendor requirements into chapter 11 of the municipal code.
Parking fee‑in‑lieu: planning staff and the planning & zoning commission recommended increasing the fee‑in‑lieu for waived parking requirements to better reflect land and construction costs. Trustees adopted a new baseline fee of $12,000 per waived parking space (staff and P&Z noted this is conservatively set while further study and a potential sliding scale are developed). The fee will be applied immediately to new requests; staff will return with additional fee‑schedule refinements and implementation procedures this fall.
Why it matters: event vendors and developers will now follow a clearer process; the higher parking fee is intended to produce funds dedicated to future public parking infrastructure instead of underpriced in‑lieu payments past practice allowed.
Ending: Trustees passed the ordinance and the fee schedule updates and directed staff to prepare the implementation details, including public‑notice and an application process for fee‑in‑lieu requests.
