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A. The City Manager or designee shall approve, approve as amended, or disapprove all applications not less than 15 days prior to the proposed event, with any disapprovals or conditions placed upon a permit being provided to the applicant in writing.

B. Decisions on approvals or conditions placed upon permits under this section shall be made without regard to the message, purpose or content of speech presented at the event.

C. As a condition of approval, the sponsor may be required to post notice in a local newspaper and/or at the proposed site of the event. The City Manager or designee may close for general use any public street, highway, alley, sidewalk or publicly owned parking lot in whole or in part, for the purpose of the event.

D. A permit may be conditioned, amended or denied upon written findings that:

1. The time, route and size of the assembly, motorcade, parade or run will unreasonably and unsafely disrupt the movement of other vehicular or pedestrian traffic;

2. The assembly, motorcade, parade or run is of a size or nature that requires the diversion of so great a number of law enforcement officers of the City to properly police the line of movement and the areas contiguous thereto that allowing the assembly, motorcade, parade or run would deny reasonable law enforcement protection to the City;

3. Such assembly, motorcade, parade or run will interfere with another assembly, motorcade, parade or run for which a permit has been issued; or

4. The assembly, motorcade, parade or run will impact principal arterial streets or minor arterial streets, as defined in Article I of Chapter 12.09 LMC, so that the arterial streets may become congested, so that police response or emergency vehicle access will be delayed, or so that entrances or exits to interstate highways would be blocked or congested.

E. Based upon the factors stated in subsection D of this section, it is within the discretion of the City Manager or designee to require amendments to the time, date, location or route proposed in the application for an assembly, motorcade, parade or run permit. A permit under this section shall be denied only upon specific findings of fact that state that no other reasonably alternative venue, time or location could safely accommodate the permit as requested. [Ord. 501 § 3, 2009.]