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Commission reopens review of peddlers and seasonal-use rules to accommodate food trucks and seasonal outdoor businesses

5841572 · September 25, 2025
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Summary

Planning staff reintroduced an update to the city’s peddlers ordinance and a proposed seasonal temporary use permit to create a lighter permitting path for food trucks and seasonal outdoor commercial activity, and the commission discussed guardrails and parking interactions.

The Planning Commission on Sept. 18 was reintroduced to a project to modernize the city’s peddlers ordinance and create a new seasonal temporary use permit for semi-permanent seasonal businesses such as food trucks that operate in one place for extended months of the year.

Staff said the current peddlers ordinance (last updated in the 1980s) is a poor fit for contemporary food trucks and seasonal operations because it imposes a burdensome permitting process and background checks designed for door-to-door sales; it…

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