Municipal White Paper

Large events are an important and growing fixture on the calendars of cities across the nation. While there is often an economic upside, these events can create sustainability and community issues that at minimum create local disruption, and are sometimes materially in conflict with goals, objectives and policies of municipalities and their citizens. A responsible event, as defined for this paper, is one that measures its success based on the concept of triple bottom line sustainability – balancing the environmental, social, and economic impacts of events in order to achieve long-term benefits for the local community.