The Police Department will be authorized to close Riverside Park
for through traffic for up to three days prior to and one day after
any annual festival with an approved special event permit which is
expected to utilize all of Riverside Park. The Police Department may
further close Labaree Street from Anne Street to Short Street during
the same time period. Alternate route around the park shall be from
Hus Drive to North Fourth Street to Hill Street to Werner Street to
Boughton Street. Barricades shall be used to control traffic on Labaree
Street between North Fourth Street and Boughton Street as necessary
for vehicle and crowd safety.
At the intersection of Perry and Labaree Streets on the south side
of Labaree Street, up to two parking spaces shall be marked as a "loading
zone" for the discharge and pickup of passengers only.
The south side of Labaree Street from the loading zone at Perry and
Labaree Streets shall be marked and designated for handicapped parking
from Perry Street to Boughton Street.
The police shall be authorized to post "no parking" signs on one
side of all the narrow streets in the Riverfest Grounds area in the
interest of crowd safety, traffic control or an emergency vehicle
route.
The purpose of the special event licenses is to provide first-class
entertainment, high-quality food, and a congenial atmosphere for the
enjoyment of the citizens of the City and surrounding communities;
to attract visitors and tourists to the City; and to further the economic
interests of the businesspersons of the City. It is the purpose of
this article to reduce or minimize the dangers or hazards to vehicular
or pedestrian traffic on or about licensed special events; to reduce
or minimize the possibility of damage to public or private property
and the liability of the City therefor; to reduce or minimize the
proliferation of trash, garbage and litter arising out of licensed
special events; to reduce or minimize the risks to public safety in
the crowds and control of the crowds on or about licensed special
events; and to promote licensed special events in furtherance of and
in a manner consistent with the public health, safety, welfare, tranquility
and interest.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or organization to vend,
sell, dispose or offer to vend, sell, dispose or display any goods,
wares or merchandise on any public sidewalk, public way, street, alley
or within the public right-of-way upon a licensed special event, as
defined in an application for special event, or within 500 feet of
any of the primary entrances to a licensed special event, without
first having obtained a permit from the organization licensed for
the special event for that purpose and having paid a permit fee therefor,
as set by said organization.
Application for the permit to vend, sell, dispose or display merchandise,
goods or wares shall be made in writing to the City Clerk/Treasurer
at least two weeks prior to the beginning of a licensed special event.
The application shall contain the name of the applicant, if an individual;
the names of partners, if a copartnership; or the names of principal
officers, if a corporation, LLC, LC, LP, LLP, church, club or charitable
institution, and shall include the location of the place or places
where such merchandise, goods or wares are to be so displayed and
sold. The organization licensed for the special event shall be authorized
to designate where such merchandise, goods or wares are to be so displayed
and sold, if at all.
No person shall operate, ride or use for transportation or recreation
any wheeled device while on the grounds of a licensed special event,
other than law enforcement officers in the normal course of their
duties on the grounds, without permission from the organization licensed
for the special event. A "wheeled device" shall include but not be
limited to the following: roller skates, in-line skates, skateboards,
bicycles, scooters and roller skis.
No person shall fail to obey any official sign or warning erected
on the premises of a special event to control pedestrian or vehicular
traffic, which includes all entrance and exit signs at all stands
on the premises of a special event.