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Monrovia council asks staff to study stronger enforcement and support options for sidewalk vendors
Summary
After a staff presentation on vendor categories and enforcement limits tied to state law, the Monrovia City Council directed staff to return with options including impoundment authority, staffing/contracting, storage logistics and potential incentive pathways for compliance.
Monrovia — The Monrovia City Council on March 18 directed city staff to research options to strengthen enforcement of unpermitted sidewalk vendors and to return with implementation details, following a staff presentation about current vendor categories, public-health risks and enforcement limits under state law.
Neighborhood and Business Services Manager Jocelyn Blakely told the council the city has about five licensed peddlers and 10 licensed mobile food vendors but that sidewalk vendors are the group posing the greatest enforcement challenge. “We used to be able to cite people with misdemeanor citations,” Blakely said. “Now we’re only able to give administrative fines.”
Blakely told the council that recent sweeps found three to five sidewalk vendors operating without permits on a given day and that the city’s enforcement is constrained by State…
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