HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Report - April 19, 1989 (44)ORDINANCE REGULATING
SIDEWALK PEDDLERS/
VENDORS INTRODUCED
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
APRIL 19, 1989
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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".
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