Forget the candied apples and elephant ears, there’ll be no Broward County Fair again this year.

Fair officials have been unable to reach agreement with the city of Pompano Beach on plans to hold their event at the Festival Flea Market on Sample Road.

It will be the third year in a row without the once-annual agricultural exhibition, its carnival fare and amusement rides.

“We need to get a proper plan together for 2016,” fair manager David Erickson said Monday. “The fair needs to change with the times so we need to come up with a fresh approach to having a fair in Broward County.”

City Manager Dennis Beach notified the fair on Thursday that its permit application was denied. Beach had a long list of requirements the fair would first need to meet — and he said many were the same traffic, fire and public safety concerns that led to last year’s denial.

“The logistics of an event [such] as a county fair with an anticipated attendance of 20-24,000 people on any given day, for a period of 11 days including the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, requires greater detail and planning,” Beach wrote in his denial.

Fair officials, given a year’s notice, only submitted their application to the city on Sept. 21.

“There are so many things that take time, and it’s all volunteers,” Erickson said. “Time was against us again.”

The fair’s board of directors will meet with its membership Oct. 28 to discuss future plans, Erickson said. But he said even if the fair could meet the city’s demands in time, it would be “extremely unlikely and impossible” to cover the thousands of dollars in costs they would entail.

The Broward fair doesn’t have its own fairgrounds, unlike the South Florida Fair in Palm Beach County. It has had at least a half-dozen locations over the past 39 years, including Gulfstream Race Track in Hallandale Beach, Pompano Park Harness Racetrack in Pompano Beach, Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale and City Center in Pembroke Pines.

Fair organizers canceled the 2013 event because the Pembroke Pines site they had used for three years was no longer available. They planned to move to the Swap Shop last year before Lauderhill officials objected to those plans. They then tried an unsuccessful last-minute effort to shift to the Festival Flea Market.

“There’s nothing that’s different,” Pompano Beach spokeswoman Sandra King said. “There’s no policy that’s changed, no process has changed.”

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