Council committee approves ban on sales from parked vehicles with amendments

The Public Safety and Health Committee reconsidered and approved an ordinance (file 251,532) that prohibits selling articles from parked vehicles at defined locations.

President Perez described the ordinance as a response to complaints from businesses and residents and said the committee exhausted alternate approaches such as food-truck zones but concluded a ban at these locations best remedies the concerns. "It's all items," Perez said when asked whether non-food sales would be covered.

After initial passage earlier in the meeting and further review, the committee took up a substitute that added the east and west sides of South 14th Street between West Rogers Street and West Forestholme Avenue to the prohibited areas. Christopher Hillard of the Legislative Reference Bureau explained the change as making the 14th Street description mirror the 13th Street restriction in impact.

Alderman Moore moved adoption as substituted and the motion carried without objection. Committee members noted the policy targets specific blocks where food-truck and roadside sales were reported to conflict with neighborhood uses.