A special event permit shall be granted unless it is determined, from consideration of the application and other pertinent information in the record, that one or more of the following circumstances exist:
A. Information contained in the application, or supplemental information supplied by the applicant, is found to be materially false or misleading.
B. The applicant fails to complete the application form within ten days after having been notified of the need to do so, or fails to provide supplemental information or documents within ten days of being requested to do so by the city.
C. The city has already approved or conditionally approved an application for another special event at the same time and place as that requested by the applicant, or so close in time and place as to cause undue traffic congestion, and/or the sheriff’s department or any other city department is unable to meet the service needs of both.
The city will give priority to Lawndale resident organizations and businesses (a resident organization shall be a non-profit service club or organization, whose membership is comprised of at least thirty percent Lawndale residents).
D. The conduct of the special event will substantially interrupt the safe and orderly movement of aerial or public transportation, or other vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic in the area of its route, or unresolvably conflict with construction or development in the public right-of-way or at a public facility, or block traffic lanes or close streets during peak commuter hours on any of the following streets:
1. Streets designated as “arterials” in the city of Lawndale general plan circulation element; or
2. Streets or portions of streets determined to be “principal commuter routes” by the city’s traffic engineering staff.
E. The concentration of persons, animals and vehicles at the site of the special event, or its assembly and disbanding areas, is reasonably likely to prevent proper police, fire, or ambulance services from meeting the city’s established emergency response time.
F. The special event is reasonably likely to require the diversion of so many city personnel to ensure that participants and/or spectators stay within the boundaries or route of the special event, or to protect participants and/or spectators, that normal protection to the rest of the city will be unreasonably compromised. The above notwithstanding, nothing herein authorizes denial of a permit because the operation of the special event creates the need to protect participants from the conduct of others, so long as reasonable permit conditions can be imposed to allow for adequate protection of event participants with the number of city personnel available to sheriff the special event.
G. If the special event is a parade, race or other type of procession, it is not likely to move from its point of origin to its point of termination in less than six hours.
H. The location of the special event is likely to substantially interfere with construction or maintenance work previously scheduled to take place upon or along city streets, or to interfere with a previously granted encroachment permit.
I. The special event is likely to occur at a time when school is in session, and along a route or at a location adjacent to a school, and the noise created by the activities of the special event would substantially disrupt the educational activities of the school.
J. The special event will occur along a route or location adjacent to a hospital or extended care facility, and the noise created by the event would substantially disrupt the operation of the hospital or extended care facility or disturb the patients within.
K. The special event has a prior history of creating conditions that jeopardize the peace and safety of the citizenry.
L. The applicant has previously violated permit conditions imposed as conditions of approval to a permit.
M. The special event endangers the health, safety or welfare of the people of the city or the location chosen for the special event is inconsistent with surrounding land uses.
N. The applicant for a commercial special event fails to provide evidence that they hold a valid city of Lawndale business license. (Ord. 913-02 § 16 (part): Ord. 849-98 § 1 (part))