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Council and administration debate hawker and peddler rules; Board of Health to review food‑truck questions
Summary
Councilors pressed the administration to simplify licensing for mobile food vendors and ice cream trucks. Staff said hawker‑and‑peddler ordinances are under council authority while food‑truck public‑health approvals are handled by the Board of Health; the health director will review the application process.
Councilors and members of the public raised the city’s licensing process for hawkers, peddlers and food trucks, focusing in particular on ice cream trucks and mobile food vendors.
A staff member explained the city’s hawker and peddler ordinance (Chapter 409) and noted that changes to that ordinance are made by the City Council; Board of Health approvals govern mobile food vendors’ food‑safety permitting. The licensing coordinator and administration provided historical background: the council amended the hawker and peddler bylaw in…
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