Pembroke Pines, FL Special Events & Permits: Parade Permits (2026)

City Code Chapter 111 defines a SPECIAL EVENT broadly: any meeting, gathering, or group activity, human or vehicular, that draws public attention and interferes or tends to interfere with normal pedestrian or vehicular flow on a public facility, street, sidewalk, swale, alley, or park. 10 names festivals, carnivals, concerts, parades, walks, races, fundraising sales, grand opening promotions, and sidewalk sales as examples, but excludes demonstrations and events held for First Amendment speech or assembly. 11(A) bars anyone from initiating, sponsoring, organizing, promoting, conducting, or advertising a special event without a city-issued permit; events on private property are limited to nine calendar days, with issuance left to the City Manager's discretion.

11(B) layers on further criteria: no permit issues for events in single-family residential zoning; none issues if the event sells or displays goods competing with a licensed business in the same center or within 300 feet, unless that business consents in writing; off-site parking needs the property owner's written permission; an applicant is capped at two permits per calendar year absent City Manager approval; no more than two permits run at one center at the same time; the applicant must file an affidavit confirming landowner permission; and any canopy, RV, accessory structure, or portable lighting plan needs a site/parking plan subject to city approval, with lighting required to use full cut-off fixtures under Chapter 116.

11(C) requires all applicable building permits before the special event permit issues. 13 folds in the code's noise regulations, and violating any added noise condition in the permit is grounds for immediate revocation by the City Manager. 14 exempts city-run events from the whole subchapter.