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Persistent issues in street vending enforcement and licensing
0:07:57
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Council Member Menin outlines the ongoing challenges in street vending enforcement and licensing despite recent legislative efforts.
- Both vendors and brick-and-mortar businesses report inconsistent and arbitrary enforcement
- Lack of coordination between multiple agencies responsible for enforcing vending laws
- Extremely long wait lists for vending licenses
- Authorized number of new mobile food vending licenses not fully issued
- Insufficient education and outreach from the city to help vendors thrive and maintain compliance
Julie Menin
0:07:57
Despite this major effort to improve both vending licensing and enforcement, issues still remain.
0:08:05
Both vendors and brick and mortar businesses feel that enforcement is inconsistent and arbitrary, and that there is not coordination between the multiple agencies responsible for enforcing vending laws.
0:08:18
The wait list for vending licenses are extremely long and the total number of new mobile food vending licenses authorized by local law eighteen of twenty twenty one has not been issued as individuals who receive applications decide not to follow through with them.
0:08:36
And vendors do not feel that there is sufficient education and outreach from the city to help them thrive as businesses and maintain compliance with the complex vending requirements.