Permitting criteria and process.
El Paso City Code § 13.32.040
in effect13.32.040 - Permitting criteria and process.
An application may be denied for any of the following reasons:
1. The application is not fully completed and executed or all information and documentation required by Section 13.32.030 has not been timely submitted;
2. The applicant has not tendered the required application fee or has not tendered other required user fees within times prescribed;
3. The application contains a material falsehood or misrepresentation;
4. The applicant is legally incompetent to contract or to sue and be sued;
5. The applicant has on prior occasions made material misrepresentations regarding the nature or scope of an event;
6. The applicant has previously permitted a violation or has violated the terms of a temporary event permit issued to or on behalf of the applicant;
7. The applicant has on prior occasions damaged city property and has not paid in full for such damage;
8. A fully executed prior application for a use at the same time and place has been received, and a permit has been or will be granted to a prior applicant authorizing uses or activities which do not reasonably permit multiple simultaneous events;
9. The applicant requests a use not permitted under this chapter;
10. The proposed event would present an unreasonable danger to the public health or safety;
11. The traffic control plan and submitted maps does not adequately address security and traffic control issues or does not otherwise adequately address the criteria and requirements of this chapter including but not limited to significantly affecting the city's ability to deliver police, fire and medical emergency services to the function site and in the vicinity of the function site;
12. Closing a street or alley for a temporary event would deny or restrict access to adjacent properties and ten percent or more of the affected owners or occupants have objected to the conduct of the event. The calculation under this subsection shall be based on the number of different properties or occupied units, not the total number of individuals occupying or using all properties;
13. Appropriate alternate routes for public transit vehicles and private vehicles are not available;
14. Inadequate arrangements have been made for anticipated parking needs and for restroom facilities and trash receptacles; or
15. The event will include amplified or non-amplified music or other sound sources that may be expected to create a noise disturbance which cannot be appropriately abated or controlled by the applicant.
(Ord. 16315 § 4, 2006)
Source: City of El Paso, City Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/tx/el_paso/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TIT13STSIPUPL_CH13.32TEEV_13.32.040PECRPRFetched: 10/28/2026