She defended the town's decision to forward the club's permit request to the village, saying such routine decisions preserve the principle of local rule.

In effect, they would be required to give each other a heads-up when new permit requests arrive or when newly considered historic buildings and areas are studied.

Those hoping for field space for next summer should file permit requests with the Department of Parks and Recreation on or after Jan. 1.

The Office of Surface Mining approved Peabody's permit request to continue operations at the mine on 22 December 2008.

Entering permit requests in the office computer and issuing permits.

Each permit request was individually determined, but no place and no time frame was ever absolute or guaranteed for public assembly.

Peter Lin, a Health Department spokesman, said permit requests go up whenever reservoir levels go down.

He called the city's response to Mr. Muhammad's permit request "problematic."

But gun shop owners contended that the permit requests would begin showing up.

After the Police Department failed to respond to the permit request for two months, Mr. MacDonald filed his lawsuit on April 1.