If you wanted a permit to put on a street festival or other similar event in Sheboygan, you’d first have to get approval from neighbors. The City is now taking steps to remove that requirement.
Alderpersons Zach Rust, along with Robert LaFave, the Chair of the Licensing, Hearings, and Public Safety Committee, are introducing a direct referral to that Committee, meaning that if approved, the Common Council would take up the proposal at its next meeting on August 5th.
The language being removed from the ordinance says that if streets or lanes will be closed, “A list of all adults who reside or do business on the to-be-closed portion of the street and a statement that all of the identified adults have been contacted about and do not object to the temporary street closure;” had to be submitted with the application. Applicants putting on street festivals or special events would still need to submit the time, date, exact portion of the street, and a description of steps taken to ensure safety under that section of the ordinance, along with a lengthy list of other requirements before a permit could be issued.
The Committee will take up the proposal at its meeting on Wednesday, July 24th.
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