Safety was one of the main reasons the event’s organizers decided to bring it back into the city limits this year, opting to host it at the Hive, a warehouse-turned community art center on 800 S. Third St. W. If it’s in town, people can ride their bikes or walk to the event, instead of getting behind the wheel.

“The safety of bringing it back into the city outweighed the hoops that we had to jump through to make it happen,” Foret explained.

Those permits included obtaining all the necessary permits for a gathering of that size, but he was still waiting for the police to sign off on the sound ordinance. He arranged a sit-down meeting Monday with the chief, but when he realized the event wasn’t going to happen in its current form, Foret said he started trying to compromise.

He suggested limiting the number of guests to 850 people and creating a silent disco – one where each person has their own headphones tuned into a source pumping out music – thus eliminating the sound and size issue. He said that if he had limited the number of people to under 1,000, he wouldn’t have to get permission from the police to host the event.

“But they started dusting off old permits that I haven’t even heard of before,” he said.