Item 451/2024
Final
City of Garden Grove
INTER-DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM
To:
Lisa L. Kim From: John Montanchez
Dept:
City Manager Dept: Community Services
Date: 11/12/2024
Subject: Consideration of a written request from LFA Group, LLC to extend the operating hours and make an exemption to the City's Noise Ordinance on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, at the Garden Amp. (Action Item)
OBJECTIVE
To transmit a written request on behalf LFA Group, LLC, requesting approval to extend the operating hours and make an ex emption to the Noise Ordinance, Municipal Code Section
8.47.040, to extend the high er noise levels from 10:00 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. on Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at the Garden Amp.
BACKGROUND
Since 2017, LFA Group, LLC has been the production company of th e City's Festival Amphitheater. The faci lities use agreement allows LFA Group, LLC to operate and rent the facility until 10:00 p.m.
DISCUSSION
Staff received a written request from the production company of the Garden Amp, LFA Group, LLC, requesting to extend the operating hours on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2024, from 10:00 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. Additionally, this request would also require the approval to make an exemption (per Garden Grove Municipal Code 8.47.070) to the hours listed in the Noise Ordinance establishing lower noise thresholds after 10:00 p.m. LFA Group, LLC will be hosting New Year’s Eve event and would like to accommodate the traditional midnight countdown as previously done in 2023, and will provide attendees the opportunity to welcome the new year.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
Approval of this request will not have a financial impact to the City.
Item 451/2024
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council:
Consider the written request from LFA Group, LLC to extend the operating hours and make an exemption to the Noise Ordinance from 10:00 p.m. to 12:15a.m. on Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at the Garden Amp.
By: Janet Pelayo, Deputy Director
ATTACHMENT(S)
1. Letter Request LFA Group, LLC