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Golf cart recognition increasingly leads to Hottie rejections as years pass.
2003
Height of Man: 32 feet, standing upon a 47-foot, pyramidal Temple
Location: Black Rock Desert
Population: 30,586
Theme: Beyond Belief
Burning Man organizers successfully met the challenge of new stipulations in the event permitting processes in order to allow Black Rock City to become a reality once again.
The DMV initiated mandatory pre-registration for mutant vehicles. This change simplified paperwork on the playa, and allowed for an email list to distribute important information. These improvements smoothed DMV process flows, so Hotties moved vehicles more efficiently to the point of licensing decisions. The largest problem was a lack of respect shown by drivers toward our community at large. Drivers of many licensed vehicles broke the few simple rules that our community has demanded for safety in our city. Many more unlicensed vehicles were involved in the same behavior. A couple of licensed art cars were driven so poorly that complaints from pedestrians hit new highs. The attitudes of the drivers and campmates responsible for these cars were at best cagey and at times blatantly disrespectful. The amount of energy put into reasoning with them pushed the resources of the DMV Hotties and the Rangers to the point of absurdity. These art car crews were given multiple chances to prove they were to be trusted only to be found driving unsafely again. This behavior was consistent with our experience the previous year. In an effort to gain control of our city's safety and prevent bodily injury to participants, some prominent art cars La Contessa and the Shark Car have been banned from returning for 2004.
Black Rock City saw the addition of a new street and additional port-a-potties, as interest in the event continued to grow and population increased to the highest numbers ever.
Two new spire-lined walkways connected the 3 and 9 o'clock plazas with the Man. These avenues gave Black Rock City a new look, aided nighttime navigation, and created a new challenge for the Lamplighters, who are responsible for lighting the streets each night.
The city contained 504 theme camps in 2003, up from 487 in 2002. The space allotted to theme camps remained the same as previous years, while the population density of mapped areas grew immensely – 12,000 to 15,000 participants camped in mapped theme camps that comprised approximately 30% of the city.
For the second year in a row, we were blessed with beautiful weather, except for a small storm during set-up and a white-out storm on Sunday. For the first time in years, the clean-up crew was not lost in a several-day-long white-out storm.
At 12:15 p.m. on October 10, 2003, Burning Man passed the Bureau of Land Management's clean-up inspection with flying colors!
According to the Bureau of Land Management, Burning Man is the largest Leave No Trace event in the world.
For the first time in 2003, dogs were not permitted to attend the event.
Height of Man: 32 feet, standing upon a 47-foot, pyramidal Temple
Location: Black Rock Desert
Population: 30,586
Theme: Beyond Belief
Burning Man organizers successfully met the challenge of new stipulations in the event permitting processes in order to allow Black Rock City to become a reality once again.
The DMV initiated mandatory pre-registration for mutant vehicles. This change simplified paperwork on the playa, and allowed for an email list to distribute important information. These improvements smoothed DMV process flows, so Hotties moved vehicles more efficiently to the point of licensing decisions. The largest problem was a lack of respect shown by drivers toward our community at large. Drivers of many licensed vehicles broke the few simple rules that our community has demanded for safety in our city. Many more unlicensed vehicles were involved in the same behavior. A couple of licensed art cars were driven so poorly that complaints from pedestrians hit new highs. The attitudes of the drivers and campmates responsible for these cars were at best cagey and at times blatantly disrespectful. The amount of energy put into reasoning with them pushed the resources of the DMV Hotties and the Rangers to the point of absurdity. These art car crews were given multiple chances to prove they were to be trusted only to be found driving unsafely again. This behavior was consistent with our experience the previous year. In an effort to gain control of our city's safety and prevent bodily injury to participants, some prominent art cars La Contessa and the Shark Car have been banned from returning for 2004.
Black Rock City saw the addition of a new street and additional port-a-potties, as interest in the event continued to grow and population increased to the highest numbers ever.
Two new spire-lined walkways connected the 3 and 9 o'clock plazas with the Man. These avenues gave Black Rock City a new look, aided nighttime navigation, and created a new challenge for the Lamplighters, who are responsible for lighting the streets each night.
The city contained 504 theme camps in 2003, up from 487 in 2002. The space allotted to theme camps remained the same as previous years, while the population density of mapped areas grew immensely – 12,000 to 15,000 participants camped in mapped theme camps that comprised approximately 30% of the city.
For the second year in a row, we were blessed with beautiful weather, except for a small storm during set-up and a white-out storm on Sunday. For the first time in years, the clean-up crew was not lost in a several-day-long white-out storm.
At 12:15 p.m. on October 10, 2003, Burning Man passed the Bureau of Land Management's clean-up inspection with flying colors!
According to the Bureau of Land Management, Burning Man is the largest Leave No Trace event in the world.
For the first time in 2003, dogs were not permitted to attend the event.
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