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a. The City Manager shall approve an application for a permit unless he/she determines, from a consideration of the application and other pertinent information, that:

1. Information contained in the application, or supplemental information requested from the applicant, is false in any material details;

2. The application is incomplete or the applicant failed to complete the application after having been notified of the additional information or documents required;

3. The applicant undertook a prior special event without a required permit or otherwise in violation of this section;

4. The applicant failed to pay the additional costs of a prior special event charged pursuant to subsection 5-19.12 c;

5. Another permit application has been received prior in time, or has already been approved, to hold another special event at the time and place requested by the applicant, or so close in time and/or place as to cause undue traffic congestion, or the City of Clearlake’s Police Department is unable to meet the needs for police services for both special events;

6. The concentration of persons, animals and vehicles at the site of the special event, or the assembly and disbanding areas around the event, will either prevent proper police, fire, emergency medical or other governmental services to areas contiguous to the event or will exceed the capabilities of the police, fire or emergency medical, and other governmental services needed to adequately protect the participants;

7. The size of the event will require diversion of so great a number of City of Clearlake police officers and other public employees to ensure that participants stay within the boundaries or route of the event, or to protect participants in the event, as to prevent normal protection to the rest of the City of Clearlake. Nothing herein authorizes denial of a permit when additional peace officers or approved private security forces to supplement these peace officers or approved private security forces would be available to the City of Clearlake, if requested by the City of Clearlake in advance of the event. Nothing herein authorizes denial of a permit because of the need to protect participants from the conduct of others, if reasonable conditions can be imposed to allow for adequate protection of participants with the number of police officers available to police the event;

8. The location of the special event will substantially interfere with any construction or maintenance work scheduled to take place upon or along the City of Clearlake streets or a previously granted encroachment permit;

9. The special event will occur at a time when a school is in session at a route or location adjacent to the school or class thereof, and the noise created by the activities of the event would substantially disrupt the educational activities of the school or class thereof;

10. Given the nature of the special event, and/or the past history of the applicant, sponsors and/or participants, the City Manager reasonably determines that the event presents a substantial risk to the health, safety and welfare of the participants and/or local residents that cannot be adequately mitigated using available public resources;

11. Alcohol usage is inappropriate for type of event or location;

12. Sound or noise level will have a negative impact on quality of life issues of the residents near the event.

b. When the grounds for denial specified in subsection (a) can be corrected by altering either the staffing for, or the date, time, duration, route or location of the event, the City Manager shall, instead of denying the application, conditionally approve the application upon the applicant’s written acceptance of conditions for permit issuance. The conditions imposed shall provide for only such modifications of the applicant’s proposed special event as are necessary to achieve compliance with this section. (Ord. #2008-134, S3; Ord. #2012-153)