Forsyth County, GA Special Events & Permits: Park Event Permits (2026)

Section 54-31 of the Forsyth County Code, Chapter 54's Article V "Activities Requiring Permits," sets the baseline procedure for reserving parks or recreation facilities for restricted uses and events. Permits are issued according to the rules and procedures the parks and recreation department itself adopts, and once obtained, must be displayed per those same department rules, so the operative permit terms live in departmental policy rather than a fixed fee schedule in the code. Subsection (c) is the critical timing rule: an event organizer must obtain the permit before announcing, advertising, or marketing the event, and if no permit has been secured in advance, the parks and recreation director or a designee can deny the permit outright and force the organizer to cancel.

Subsection (d) gives the department broad revocation power, letting it pull any permit already issued upon a finding that the permit holder violated any law, ordinance, policy, procedure, rule or regulation, or for other good cause, without spelling out a fixed list of grounds. Related sections layer on additional permit-specific rules an event organizer needs to plan around: section 54-32 requires a permit before posting signs or banners or running any commercial activity in a park, section 54-33 limits alcohol permits for special events to only Chattahoochee Pointe, Eagle's Beak Park, and the Sawnee Mountain Preserve Visitor Center, and section 54-35 requires organized sports groups or instructors to get a separate special permit before using athletic fields or courts for games, practices, camps or clinics.