Permitting criteria.
El Paso City Code § 13.38.050
in effect13.38.050 - Permitting criteria.
A. Grounds for Denial. An application, or permitted specific date of a recurring special event, may be denied for any of the following reasons:
1. The application is not fully completed and executed;
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 enabled a violation or has violated the terms of a special 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 that do not reasonably permit multiple simultaneous events;
9. The proposed event would conflict with previously planned programs organized, conducted, or sponsored by the City and previously scheduled at or near the same time and place;
10. The applicant requests a use not permitted under this chapter;
11. The proposed event would present an unreasonable danger to the public health or safety;
12. The proposed event would substantially or unnecessarily interfere with traffic, including but not limited to the unavailability of appropriate alternate routes for public transit vehicles and private vehicles;
13. The temporary traffic control plan and submitted site map do not adequately address security and traffic control issues or do not adequately address the criteria and requirements of this Chapter including, but not limited to the City's ability to deliver police, fire and emergency services to the event site and in the vicinity of the event site;
14. There would not, at the time of the event, be sufficient law enforcement and traffic control officers to adequately protect participants and nonparticipants from traffic related hazards in light of the other demands for police protection at the time of the proposed event;
15. The proposed event would take place on an arterial roadway during peak traffic hours;
16. The proposed event would take place at a location that cannot reasonably accommodate all of the expected participants;
17. The proposed event would take place on a state or federal highway or road and the appropriate governmental agency has not authorized the proposed use of the highway or road in writing;
18. Inadequate arrangements have been made for anticipated parking needs and for restroom facilities and trash receptacles;
19. The event will include amplified or non-amplified music or other sound sources that are expected to create a noise disturbance that cannot be appropriately abated or controlled by the applicant; or
20. The right-of-way closure for the event would deny or restrict access to abutting properties and substantial opposition to the closure has been received through the public notification process.
(Ord. No. 18381, § 1, 7-7-2015)
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_CH13.38SPEV_13.38.050PECRFetched: 10/28/2026