expressed chagrin<\/a> over being compelled by Special Events to print up 10,000 fliers advertising downtown businesses, which Crow called “an expensive and strange requirement [that] forced [me] to have my event be a commercial.”<\/p>\nAshman confirmed the requirement, saying that an identical requirement was made of 2011’s Gospel Fest, and that such requirements “are things that commonly happen with special events.”<\/p>\n
“I wanted to make sure that the guests attending the Zombie Walk had the ability to make good decisions about other opportunities to enjoy themselves here in the downtown area,” Ashman said at the time, “[\u2026 that] they find some way to become involved and stay longer in our area, hopefully adding to the positive economic benefit of having this event in the downtown area. And having an additional list of those possibilities for those people was a good idea. [\u2026 B]y giving them other options, we hoped to avoid a negative experience for the people coming to Long Beach to enjoy a good evening of Long Beach hospitality.”<\/p>\n
Crow says he has no desire to revisit the issue, noting that this requirement has not been imposed upon him since Zombie Walk 2011, and that the Special Events permitting process has been vastly improved since then. But it is unclear whether Special Events still imposes this requirement on others. Ashman is no longer with the Bureau of Special Events & Filming, and the Bureau did not respond to the Post<\/em>‘s inquiries regarding whether event organizers are sometimes still required to print up advertising fliers, and whether the requirement was ever cleared with the City Attorney’s Office.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"longbeachflyers](\"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/longbeachflyers_nowords.jpg\")
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