Ordinance 15-05

This ordinance does three things. First, it repeals the chapter regulating itinerant merchants, solicitors and peddlers and replaces it with a chapter regulating only solicitors. Solicitors have been defined to mean a person who requests anything of value for the taking of orders of goods or the immediate delivery of goods. Second, it adds a new chapter to the Title which regulates the licensing of mobile food vendors. Third, it adds a new chapter to the Title which regulates the licensing of pushcart operators. The purposes of these changes are twofold: (1) to streamline the current licensing and permitting process for these types of activities; and (2) to encourage, within necessary perimeters, the development of smaller businesses that enhance the community. Please note that the ordinance comes forward as a result of Council consideration of Ord 14-24 over a course of meetings held in late fall of 2014. After adoption of some amendments and discussion of others, the Council adopted a motion to table the ordinance and consider another ordinance in the first quarter of 2015 that reflected the discussions in 2014. This ordinance incorporates additional changes to Title 4 as a result of those deliberations.