City hosts community meetings to craft new restrictions on pushcarts, stands and other vendors
HAYWARD—A California state law meant to protect sidewalk vendors may be taking a bite out of brick-and-mortar businesses open around them.
Tensions over the issue were on display at a Hayward City Council meeting in November. Lesly Garcia from Xenias Gelato said it’s not fair that permitted vendors can take daily customers away without having to grapple with the costs of utilities, business licenses and property taxes. “We have health inspectors come every year to our location and make sure everything’s clean and neat, but when it comes to street vendors, there’s nobody who checks them like that,” Perez said Nov. 1. “I don’t think that’s fair that for us.
The city currently has no easy way to address these issues, however, unless the Alameda County Department of Environmental Health finds that vendors are failing to display necessary permits, comply with food safety health codes or keep public right-of-ways clear.
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