Rules, Regulations and Permitting Process
Please refer to the City of Lynn Park Manual for Rules and Regulation on parks, facilities, ponds, community gardens and Lynn Woods.
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Parks Permitting and Applications
Permit applications are available from the Parks Department beginning the first week in January. All requests must be in 30 days prior to your event date.
Contact Information:
April Peralta
Parks Head Clerk
(781) 268-8000 Ext.12
aperalta@lynnma.gov |
Lynn Parks and Recreation
recreation@lynnma.gov
Lynn Public Works Department
250 Commercial Street
Lynn MA 01905 |
All permits applications must be heard by the Board of Park Commissioners. The Board of Park Commissioners meets the first Tuesday of every month, unless otherwise posted.
The following seasonal starting and ending dates are approximate and depend upon weather and field conditions. The City will determine the start and end dates each season. Failure to adhere to these dates may result in loss of field permits.
Following is an approximate timetable for submission of playing field and related facility applications and issuance of permits.
Season |
Spring |
Summer |
Fall |
Application Period |
January 1st |
April 1st |
June 1st |
Documentation and Fee Deadline |
March 15th |
June 15th |
August 15th |
Please be aware that reservation requests for use will be accepted on a first come-first serve basis.
Please review the 2022 Lynn Parks Usage Manual in its entirety before requesting any field or facility.
Required items for Board of Park Commission Meeting:
All requests must be in 30 days prior to your event date.
- A letter of request with full details of event with date, Time Location, type of event and expected participants.
- Signed Acknowledgement of Receipt of Policy Page 12 of Lynn Parks Department Manual (add Hyperlink to Manual)
Required items after approval from the Board of Park Commissioners:
- 2021 Facilities Application (Coming Soon)
- 2021 Check List (Coming Soon)
- Visit our MYREC Request website for the exact dates and times for which you were approved for.
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Lynn Ponds and Waterways
For Ponds and Water Ways please contact the Lynn Harbor Master
Lynn Pond Associations:
City Ordinance Regarding Flax and Sluice Pond Use:
IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE
AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO SPEED LIMITS ON FLAX AND SLUICE PONDS
Be it Ordained by the City Council of the City of Lynn and by the authority of the same as follows, to wit:-
SECTION 1 - No person shall operate any motorboat or vessel as those terms are defined in General Laws, Chapter 90B, Section 1 on Flax or Sluice Ponds so as to violate General Laws, Chapter 90B, Section 8.
SECTION 2 - No person shall operate any personal watercraft, such as a jet ski, surf jet, or wet bike on any pond in the City of Lynn of less than seventy-five acres.
SECTION 3 - For purposes of this ordinance a personal watercraft means a small vessel which uses an inboard motor powering a water jet pump as its primary source of motive power and which is designed to be operated by persons sitting, standing or kneeling on the vessel. The term ..includes but: is not limited to a jet ski, wet bike or surf jet, so called.
SECTION 4 - Whoever violates this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of Fifty ($50.00) Dollars for each offense.
SECTION 5 - The provisions of this ordinance shall be enforced by harbor masters and assistant harbor masters and by police officers of the City of Lynn.
SECTION 6 - All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 7 - As provided in General Lews, Chapter 90B, Section 15, this ordinance. must be approved by the Director of The Division of Motorboats of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Once such approval is received, this ordinance will be published in a newspaper of general distribution in the City of Lynn to be effective five (5) days thereafter.
