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LM*#1K1k1r1$Wl • WHEREAS, "First Night," a Special Community Event within the City of Charlottesville, will take place December 31, 1997 - January 1, 1998; and WHEREAS, it has been requested that Council authorize the Sponsor of the First Night event to designate and control several food -court areas in locations in or about the Downtown Mall, and that the selling of food and/or beverages as well as the provision of tables and chairs for patrons be allowed within such areas, and WHEREAS, City Council is willing to support this request to the extent set forth below; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED that the Sponsor of First Night is hereby authorized to designate and control several food -court areas in locations along the Downtown Mall, during the First Night Virginia event, for the sale and/or offering for sale of food and/or beverages and the provision of tables and chairs for patrons, conditioned upon compliance with the following: 1. The size(s), location(s), and organization of the food -court areas must be approved by the Zoning Administrator and the Chief of Police, upon a determination by those officials that no such area(s) shall interfere with or present a hazard to, the safety, welfare, comfort or convenience of the public. In approving the size(s), location(s) and organization of the food -court areas, the • Zoning Administrator and Chief of Police are hereby authorized to waive the requirements of Section 28-120(2) of the City Code, upon a determination that such waiver will not be unduly injurious to the safety and convenience of the general public; and 2. No such areas, or any stands within such areas, shall be approved in a location prohibited by Sections 28-120(1) and 28-120(3)-(5) of the City Code, and 3. The event's Sponsor may control which vendors it wishes to operate from space within the food -court areas, and (with the approval of the Zoning Administrator and Chief of Police) the Sponsor may control the number of vendors that will operate within each food -court area, so long as the food -court areas are ribboned -off or otherwise adequately marked to identify the areas as being reserved for use by First Night's Sponsor and its designated participants. Except with respect to the areas reserved to First Night's Sponsor, vending by persons other than those within those areas shall not be affected, and shall be allowed as otherwise provided within Chapter 28, Article IV of the City Code, and 4. Vendors selling and/or offering for sale any food and/or beverage within the food -court areas must comply with the requirements set forth in Sections 28-115, 28-117, 28-118, 28-121, 28-122, 28-124 and 28-125 of the City Code. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that during the First Night event, the time of day restrictions for all vendors, whether or not they are located within the Sponsor's food -court areas, • shall be extended from 10:00 p.m. on December 31, 1997 through 1:00 a.m. on January 1, 1998. Approved by Council — September 15, 1997 dLArk of City Council