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Clerk 07/24/2002
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the use of a King County park; allowing the director of the department of natural resources and parks to issue a special use permit allowing the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages within a confined area of the ballfield complex at Petrovitsky Park during the Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour; and amending Ordinance 6798, Section 64, as amended, and K.C.C. 7.12.640 and declaring an emergency.
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PREAMBLE:
The Tides Center/Chautauqua Project ("Chautauqua") is hosting the Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour a Political/Community Fair with speakers, workshops, music and food.
Chautauqua has requested to use a portion of the Petrovitsky Park baseball complex for a hospitality site and to serve alcoholic beverages to specific Fair patrons at the site during the 2002 Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour.
Chautauqua has agreed to compensate the county 20% of the gross sales of the alcoholic beverages for this privilege.
K.C.C. 7.12.640 prohibits the selling, opening, possessing, and consuming of alcoholic beverages at nonauthorized sites, including Petrovitsky Park.
To support the Rolling Thunder Tour, the county agrees to issue a special use permit allowing the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages within the designated hospitality site on August 24, 2002.
A one-time exception to K.C.C. 7.12.640 is necessary to authorize the department to issue a limited and restricted special use permit allowing sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages at a designated site within Petrovitsky Park ballfield complex during the Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. An exception to K.C.C. 7.12.640 is hereby granted, authorizing the executive, through his director of natural resources and parks, to issue a special use permit to Chautauqua, thereby allowing the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages at a design...
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