The following definitions shall apply to this chapter:
“Applicant”means any person, firm, association, corporation, organization, club or ad hoc committee who or which seeks a temporary use permit from the city through the community development director, or a special event permit from the city, through the chief of police, to conduct or sponsor events governed by this chapter. An applicant must be eighteen years of age or older. The applicant shall be the individual who is directly responsible for organizing and/or conducting the temporary use or special event and/or the facility manager.
“Assembly”means any meeting, demonstration, picket line, rally, gathering, or group of one hundred or more persons, animals, or vehicles, or a combination thereof, having a common purpose, design, or goal, upon any public street, sidewalk, alley, park, or other public place, which assembly substantially inhibits the usual flow of pedestrian or vehicular travel or which occupies any public area, other than a parade, as defined in this section.
“Bounce house”means temporary inflatable structures, buildings and similar items, such as inflatable trampolines, inflatable waterslides, bouncy houses, bouncy castles, moon bounce, and moonwalks.
“Circus”means any transient, travelling, or transportable show or exhibition where a variety of performances by acrobats, clowns, and/or trained animals and restricted animals are a substantial attraction or principle business.
“City manager”means the city manager of the city or authorized deputy or designee.
“Commercial filming use”means and includes all activity attendant to staging or shooting commercial motion pictures, television programs, or commercials.
“Entertainment”means providing to the public food and/or beverages; live or recorded music; dancing; mechanical, animal or carnival rides; games of chance; performances and/or plays; animal or restricted animal performances; audiovisual presentations; amplified sound; competitive or sporting events; and/or promotional events.
“Event”means uses subject to either a temporary use permit or special event permit.
“Event sponsor”means any person, entity, business, or group who operates or conducts, or shares in the revenue of, an event subject to this chapter.
“Extraordinary police services”means responsive police services which are in addition to and in excess of the normal police services provided to the facility or off-site as a direct result of the event at the facility.
“Facility”means the building, room, location or place where the special event is to take place.
“Farmers market” or “seasonal sale of agricultural goods”means certified farmers’ markets as California agricultural point of sale locations for the purposes of California Food and Agricultural Code Section
47004(a) as may be amended. Generally, this is a multi-stall market location where certified California farmers sell fresh products that they have grown and harvested themselves directly to consumers who intend to consume the products. It may also include meat and dairy products.
means the nonrefundable fee to be paid by the permit applicant at the time the application is filed for a temporary use permit or special event permit per a fee schedule approved by the city council addressing the actual costs of processing the applications.
“Food cart”means a mobile kitchen that is set up on the street to facilitate the sale and marketing of street food to people from local pedestrian traffic.
“Manufactured home”means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities.
“Open air market”means any outdoor place, in an approved location, or for an approved activity where new or used goods or secondhand personal property is offered for sale or exchange to the general public by a multitude of individual licensed vendors, usually in compartmentalized spaces. The “open air market” is interchangeable with and applicable to: swap meet, flea markets, auctions, or other similarly named or labeled activities; but the term does not include farmers markets, supermarket or department store retail operations.
“Open to the public”means an event not limited to invitees and otherwise open to any member of the public with or without an admission fee or charge.
“Parade”means any march, demonstration, procession, motorcade, or promenade consisting of persons, animals, or vehicles, or a combination thereof, having a common purpose, design, destination, or goal, upon any public place, which parade, march, demonstration, procession, motorcade, or promenade does not comply with normal and usual traffic regulations or control.
“Public benefit”means if the nonprofit provides a benefit to the public generally, or a sufficient section of the public, of a type acceptable to the city to promote public health, safety or welfare.
“Push cart”means any of the various types of wheeled light cart to be pushed by hand, as one used by street vendors.
“Recreational vehicle”means a vehicle which is: (1) built on a single chassis; (2) four hundred square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection; (3) designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light-duty truck; and (4) designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use.
“Responsible party”means, for the purpose of determining liability for damage to city or public facilities as a result of a special event and liability for the cost of extraordinary police services, any person or entity (including those who caused the damage, as well as those acting in a supervisory capacity or hosting the event including applicant(s), event sponsor(s), and/or promoter(s) and/or facility operator(s) and their respective designees) responsible for creating, causing, committing, or contributing to said damage.
“Restricted animal”means those animals listed in Fish and Game Code Section
2119 and Title
14, California Code of Regulations Section 671 et seq.
means a state-licensed uniform security guard, or off-duty law enforcement.
“Sidewalk sales”means a retail event in which a group of four or more merchants within a defined business district is allowed to display merchandise for sale outside of the merchants’ places of business during normal business hours.
“Small photography shoot”means the act of taking photos where: (1) three or fewer persons are engaged in the staging or shooting of photographs or operating the photography equipment, not including the subjects of the shoot; (2) the photographer uses no more than three pieces of photography equipment; (3) the photography equipment used is of a size and weight that each piece can be carried by one person; and (4) the entire production is finished in one calendar day.
“Special event”means an event sponsored by any person, entity, business or group including at any special event venue or public right-of-way within the city and open to the public.
“Temporary portable storage container”means any temporary structure that is a reusable, enclosed, or open vessel, cargo container or truck trailer which is used for the storage of freight, articles, goods, solid waste, personal belongings, commodities, or similar uses, including metal cargo containers, steel cargo containers, shipping containers, freight containers, portable storage containers, ISO containers, cargo boxes or sea vans.
“Temporary use”means temporary utilization of property for a special, unique or limited duration not otherwise either authorized by this code or permits granted for uses normally operated on that property.
(Ord. 765 § 5, 2018; Ord. 837, 9/23/2025)