Arvada, CO Special Events & Permits: Parade Permits (2026)

Section 38-64 sits at the end of the noise chapter's Article II and exists because parades, festivals, and similar public gatherings routinely trip the noise restrictions in Sections 38-61 and 38-62, from amplified sound to horn use to after-hours loading. Rather than banning those events, the section builds a permit valve: an organizer whose public event might violate the noise chapter, but does not meet the Arvada Zoning Ordinance's separate definition of a 'special event,' applies to the city manager or the manager's duly authorized representative for a permit, valid only at the specific times, dates, and conditions noted on it.

17 of Article 5 of the Arvada Zoning Ordinance, a separate land-use instrument from this City Code with its own application and review process. The subsection also names one standing exception: the Arvada Harvest Festival Parade is deemed permitted every year, with no application required at all, the only event singled out by name in the chapter. The same permit mechanism reappears in Section 38-62(8)(c), which exempts special-event permit holders from the exterior-loudspeaker restriction, and in Section 38-62(7), which exempts licensed parades and fairs from the ban on selling by outcry in residential areas.

Because Section 38-64 itself sets no separate fine, holding a qualifying public event without the required permit is punished the same way other Article II violations are, under Section 38-33's reference to the citywide general penalty in Section 1-5.