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Council reaffirms Deep Roots festival, adopts control zone allowing open containers
Summary
Council heard a presentation from festival organizers about changes for the Oct. 19 Deep Roots festival, including more local vendors and free main-stage access, then unanimously adopted a resolution establishing the festival control zone and permitting public consumption of alcoholic beverages within that zone.
Council members heard a presentation on the 2024 Deep Roots festival and then adopted a resolution reaffirming the event and establishing a festival control zone that permits public consumption of alcohol in designated areas.
Frank Pendergast, identified in the record as the Deep Roots festival director, and Carly Schulte of Main Street described plans for Oct. 19: more local and regional food trucks, a consolidated main stage holding community and headline acts, a kids zone with separate ticketing, more than 72 arts-and-crafts vendors across two blocks north and south of Wayne Street, and a commercial corridor with 22 vendor spaces. Pendergast said the event will be free to enter: "So there will be there is no charge, whatsoever to come into the Deep Roots, festival at all." He also cited prior-year attendance estimates derived from cell-phone data, saying the event drew "over 35,000" unique phones within event boundaries for at least 15 minutes.
After the presentation the council considered Resolution R-24-10 to reaffirm Deep Roots as a community festival sponsored by the Main Street Downtown Development Authority, to permit open-container public consumption within the festival control zone, and to reaffirm rules designated by the community festival ordinance. Following a motion and second, the clerk called the roll and each present council member voted "Aye." The mayor declared the resolution adopted.
Organizers said streets will remain barricaded through Sunday and that music will run until about 11:15 p.m. The council did not amend the resolution during the meeting.
