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Washington keeps 200-foot downtown buffer, exempts short-term mobile vendors from business license
Summary
Council preserved a 200-foot protection for downtown businesses and approved a code change exempting mobile food vendors that operate fewer than 10 times per year from obtaining a city business license; vendors still must meet health, fire and site-permit requirements.
The Washington City Council on Sept. 22 left intact a 200-foot buffer that limits where mobile food trucks may park in the downtown vending district, and approved an amendment to the city code that exempts short-term mobile food vendors from the city business-license requirement.
The change to section 605.05 — approved on second reading and by roll-call vote — exempts mobile food vendors who operate in approved vending districts or who operate fewer than 10 times in a calendar year from having to obtain a city business license. City staff emphasized that vendors would still need health-department approvals, fire inspections and any required…
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