ORIGINAL: Top_Gunn
Ask the city what the rules are, and if they dont tell show you a rule against it, then you are golden.
Not even close. If you fly over anybody's property other than your own without permission, you are trespassing. You also have to worry about zoning laws, rules (common law, not written down anywhere, typically) against ''nuisances'' (basically, any activity that might annoy someone), and noise ordinances. Furthermore, there is no way to ''ask a city'' anything. They aren't going to do legal research for you. The opinion of some clerk in a city office is worthless.
Find a club that has a flying field.
Your reply seems to be from my post but I think you have just shotgunned the issue...so I’ll offer up something a wise man told me once as it applies here so very well; it is far easier to get forgiveness than permission...LOL. This will be the case more often than not when dealing with public property use...
Use your head, don’t do stupid things and you might find more flying sites than you could ever imagine... Flying a 40% Extra on a frequently used baseball field probably won’t work...but flying a control line airplane in a schoolyard after school hours may actually be well received... We live in an infinitely variable world and that is the true reality... Its easy to hypothesize whatever but reality is not hypothetical...