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Parks commission backs staff's event policy revisions with changes to fee-waiver, LTA eligibility and peak-season counting
Summary
After extensive public comment and commissioner debate, the Parks & Recreation Commission voted 4-0 to recommend updates to the special-event policy guide that simplify fees, shift some approvals, and change peak-season counting and fee-waiver language; commissioners returned several items for clearer economic-impact measures and asked staff to fix inconsistent fee numbers in the materials.
The Parks & Recreation Advisory Commission on April 16 recommended that City Council consider a revised special-event policy guide that streamlines permitting, updates fees and clarifies long-term agreement (LTA) and fee-waiver processes.
Staff framed the changes as an attempt to improve clarity, administrative efficiency and cost recovery. Proposed updates presented by senior staff included: reworking application deadlines and the approval process, adding flexibility for event locations, applying event-day limits citywide during peak hours, removing the participant-roster method for small events and replacing it with flat per-location fees, and adding several fees (late-application, LTA application, reserve…
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