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Commissioners deny September multiyear permit for Meadow Creek festival, cite public-safety and calendar conflicts

Chaffee County Board of Commissioners · December 16, 2025
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Summary

After extended testimony from organizers, emergency services and residents, commissioners denied a request for a multiyear permit for a September Meadow Creek festival date, citing unresolved public-safety staffing, calendar conflicts with other regional events and insufficient operational assurances.

The Board of County Commissioners voted to deny a multiyear special-event permit request for a Meadow Creek music festival on the proposed September weekend. The application sought date changes, reduced capacity to 10,000, and a three-year permit (down from five). County staff and multiple outside agencies (sheriff, EMS, fire districts, municipal special-events staff) described constraints about overlapping…

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