A. The chief of police may require any reasonable and necessary traffic control. If such traffic control cannot be handled by the sponsor and shall require the deployment of additional police personnel, the permittee shall be responsible for the expense. The chief of police or his designee shall notify the applicant(s) of the actual projected expense.

B. If a special event constitutes a road closure, request for such closure must be submitted in the special event application no less than 90 days prior to the event. Road closure requests for special expressive events with less than 90 days’ notice shall be reviewed in accordance with the other provisions of this chapter.

C. Road closure requests not associated with a city or city-sponsored event must receive approval from the chief of police in consultation with the city administrator. This requirement does not apply to special expressive events.

D. Events with grandfathered road closure approvals are: Maritime Gig Festival, Beatnik’s Concert, National Night Out, Trick or Treat, PAL Arts Festival, Turkey Trot and Race for a Soldier.

E. Roads that may not be closed: Olympic Drive, Point Fosdick Drive, 56th Street, Soundview Drive (between Olympic Drive and Grandview Street), Stinson Avenue (between Pioneer Way and Rosedale), Borgen Boulevard (between Burnham Drive and Harbor Hill Drive), Wollochet Drive, 38th Avenue (between 56th Street and Hunt Street), Skansie Avenue (between 72nd Street and Rosedale Street), and Rosedale Street (between Skansie Avenue and 54th Avenue).

F. Harborview Drive may not be closed more than once per calendar month for special event purposes. (Ord. 1486 § 6, 2022; Ord. 1461 § 2, 2021; Ord. 1385 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1221 § 8, 2011; Ord. 427 § 9, 1983).