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Commission defers decision on expanding downtown vending restriction in the Gulch until August
Summary
The Traffic & Parking Commission voted to defer consideration of extending a downtown sidewalk vending restriction to the Gulch until August to gather more seasonal data; staff cited low winter vending activity and noted pedestrian crash data that will be filtered for seasonality.
The Traffic & Parking Commission voted to defer action on a proposal to extend the downtown sidewalk vending restriction into the Gulch until August so staff can collect additional seasonal data.
Andrew Smith of NDOT told the commission the department had been asked to extend a previous deferral and recommended the commission defer until August to capture warmer-season vending activity. Smith said, "during the cold weather of December and January, there's just not any vending activity to speak of that is taking place in this location," and asked for additional data collection time.
A commissioner raised pedestrian crash data cited in the staff analysis—29 pedestrian-related crashes, 26 with injury and two fatal—asking whether the department could narrow those crashes by time of year. Smith said that filtering by season is possible and noted that the area studied extends up to Broadway, which likely contains a higher share of the crashes than Pine Street.
The commission moved to defer the item to August 2025; the motion was seconded and passed by voice vote. The commission did not adopt any interim regulatory changes at the meeting.
Staff will return with updated data collected during the active vending season and any refined geographic filtering of the crash data.
