Event law change could affect GrassRoots Festival - 14850
The Town of Ulysses Town Board is holding a public hearing on Tuesday evening to hear public comments on a proposed local law that would amend the town’s Special Events Law. “No more than one special event permit per calendar year shall be issued to the same operator or for the same property,” the proposal states, a change that could block Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival organizers from holding all of their usual annual events.
“Any applications for special event permits in excess of this limit must be made to the Town Board of the Town of Ulysses,” says the proposed new law. The current law allows up to four special event permits to be issued per operator or per property.
The change wouldn’t affect the Trumansburg Fairgrounds, the site of the GrassRoots Festival itself, because the fairgrounds are in an agricultural zone, but would mean GrassRoots organizers couldn’t apply for routine event permits to use the “Across the Way” property acquired several years ago for camping and parking for multiple events in one year without having to appeal to the Town Board for an exemption.
Special events may be up to five days in duration, which means GrassRoots organizers couldn’t consider the GrassRoots Culture Camp and the festival itself to be a single event for permit purposes, and under the new law, offering camping and parking at the Across the Way site for both would require organizers to appeal to the Town Board for an exemption, rather than just seeking a routine event permit for each. Last year’s series of GrassRoots-organized concert weekends needed routine permit applications, but also would have required appeals to the Town Board under the new proposal.
The public hearing is scheduled for 7pm on Tuesday, April 12th, and will be held in person and via Zoom, at https://zoom.us/j/96162758850, meeting ID: 961 6275 8850, or +1 646 876 9923. The location of the in-person meeting has not been published.
The Town of Ulysses web site hasn’t been responding since Monday evening, and as of Tuesday morning, the Town Clerk as not responded to an inquiry.
According to the Town of Ulysses, “all interested residents will be afforded an opportunity to submit written and oral comments in person or as represented by an agent, or send comments in advance to the Town Clerk at 10 Elm St., Trumansburg NY 14886 or via e-mail to [email protected] by 4pm on Tuesday, April 12, 2022.”
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