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Proposed Bike Week guideline changes draw board concern over itinerant vendors and local business impacts
Summary
Board members and local business owners raised health, competition and economic concerns about proposed changes to Bike Week master-plan guidelines that would allow more itinerant vending, including temporary tattoo vendors. City staff will host a community meeting Feb. 17 to review proposed guideline changes.
Redevelopment board members, business owners and residents spent the largest portion of the meeting discussing proposed changes to the Bike Week master-plan guidelines and the effect of itinerant vendors on downtown businesses and public health.
Board and community speakers said they learned about a community meeting scheduled for Monday, Feb. 17 at 6 p.m. at the Peabody Auditorium that city staff and partners would host to review proposed changes to the Bike Week event guidelines. The city’s announcement named Jeff Brown and Rose Askew as discussion participants; the board was told the city’s economic development staff is the…
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