Flagstaff, AZ Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)

Section 8-03-001-0005, dating to Ordinance 1712 in 1991, requires that no parade, exhibition, street dance, street fair or other similar purpose shall occupy, march or proceed along any public right of way except in accordance with a permit issued by the City Manager. Organizers must apply at least five days before the event, and the City Manager decides what information the application must include and how it's processed; after consulting with the relevant City divisions, the Manager can issue the permit conditioned on the applicant's written agreement to comply with its terms.

The permittee is on the hook for placing and removing every barricade the permit requires and for obtaining any other inspections or licenses the event needs elsewhere in the Code. If the City Manager denies an application, the applicant has five days to file a written appeal with the City Clerk, and the City Council hears that appeal at its next regular meeting alongside the Manager's recommendation, with the power to affirm, reverse, or modify the decision. The permit itself isn't permanent protection once issued: the City Manager can summarily revoke it at any time because of a disaster, public calamity, riot, or other emergency that threatens public safety, delivering notice to the permittee by personal service or certified mail whenever possible.

The requirement doesn't reach motorized funeral processions or picketing, protests, demonstrations, or similar First Amendment activity, and the section notes it doesn't override the separate unlawful-assembly restrictions in Title 6, Chapter 1, Section 2 of the City Code.