REMARKS
Council Member Pierina Ana Sanchez remarks on illegal street vending and enforcement
1:26:50
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Council Member Sanchez raises concerns about the lack of enforcement capacity to address widespread illegal street vending in many communities.
- She notes that on a typical busy Saturday on Fordham Road, an estimated 70-90% of street vendors are unlicensed
- Fordham Road is a restricted street for vending
- There is no feasible way for the city to give sanitation enough enforcement capacity to address illegal vending and conditions in all communities
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:26:50
And just wanna wanna make sure I'm understanding how we square right.
1:26:53
Because I I want a a compliance first approach, you know, and and that's what I've been asking for and why I I was sponsoring intro 431 to to change the system in in many ways, but just really helpful to understand that breakdown.
1:27:06
So if I if I run out of time, maybe the chairs will be nice to me But, you know, thinking on Fordham Road, right, I I it it's easy to say that probably 90%, 70 to 90% on any given busy, beautiful Saturday of street vendors that are out there are unlicensed.
1:27:26
And it is an it it is a restricted street.
1:27:29
So I I say that to say that there is no universe in which we could I don't think we would want to as a city give sanitation all of the enforcement capacity that you would need to just address, you know, illegal vending or or just to just to address the conditions that we're seeing in many of our communities.