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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Report - April 19, 1989 (44)ORDINANCE REGULATING SIDEWALK PEDDLERS/ VENDORS INTRODUCED CITY COUNCIL MEETING APRIL 19, 1989 A'A;r , ORD. NO. 1454 The City Council was reminded that at the Shirtsleeve meeting of January 31, 1989, the Council initially CC -6 considered the draft of a proposed ordinance addressing CG -45W sidevialk/street vendors and peddlers. The proposed CC -149 ordinance has three facets: 1) It prohibits the selling of any merchandise on a public street or sidewalk for longer than ten minutes at a single location. By requiring vendors to inove, it avoids a specific location becoming "institutionalized" in the minds of passing motorists as a place to stop at the curb and do business. 2) It prohibits any street vendor from operating at any location where it will create a traffic hazard; and 3) It prohibits vending within three hundred feet of a schocl ground when school is in sessior;, or within one hundred feet of any intersection controlled by a traffic light or fear way stop sign. At the Council's direction, the proposed ordinance was sent to the Lodi Downtown Business Association and the Lodi District Chamber of Commerce. for review and input. The only response -received was a suggestion by the Chamber that the time limit of 4:00 p.m. be deleted from proposed Section 9.20.030. the statute as modified would then prohibit sales by peddlers or vendors within "... three hundred feet of any school grounds . on any day wlen school is in session %..". From a legal standpoint, I have no concerns with this modification. The introduction of this ordinance will provide a tool for the Community Development Department, which has regularly experienced instances involving sales of merchandise from street corners, usually at traffic -controlled intersections. On motion of Council Member Olson, Ninchman seccnd, the City Council. , by unanimous vote, introduced Ordinance No. 1454 entitled "An Ordinance of the Lodi City Council Amending the Lodi !!uric:ipal Code by Adding Thereto Chapter 9.20 Regulating Peddlers', Vendors', or Itinerant Merchants' Activities on Public Streets and Sidewalks". 15