Miramar, FL Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)

Before staging a circus, carnival, fair, or similar public exhibition in Miramar, the organizer must first apply to the Community Development Department and obtain a temporary use permit, per City Code Sec. 11-61. The city does not open this permit to any applicant: Sec. 11-62 limits eligibility to organizations that have existed for three or more years and that engage in charitable, civic, community, benevolent, religious, or scholastic work, effectively barring for-profit carnival operators from applying directly. Sec. 11-63 requires the applicant to prove nonprofit status meeting that three-year mission test, and Sec.

11-64 layers on a second requirement once the exhibition permit issues: the organization must separately obtain an occupational (business tax) license under Sec. 11-39 and comply with all other applicable city ordinances. The article traces to the 1964 Code and was last amended by Ordinance No. 95-26. A parallel provision in the city's Land Development Code reaches the same activity from the zoning side: Table 8 to LDC Sec. 322 lists 'Festival, Concert and Musical Events' among the uses that require a temporary use permit reviewed under Sec.

3, and Sec. 3 restricts an applicant to one TUP on the same property 'not more than once every 30 days, unless approved by the city manager,' while Sec. 3 caps every TUP's duration at the minimum time needed for the event. Organizers should expect to coordinate both the Article III exhibition permit and, where the event also qualifies as a zoning temporary use, the LDC's TUP process before the gates open.