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City amends shopping‑cart rules, requires annual vendor plans and adopts inspection fee
Summary
The council approved strengthened shopping‑cart containment requirements — including annual plan renewals, on‑site inspections, expanded definitions and a fines schedule — and adopted a $358 annual fee per containment plan to cover inspection and monitoring costs.
Desert Hot Springs on May 6 approved an amendment to municipal shopping‑cart regulations to curb cart abandonment and the blight and safety hazards it causes, and adopted a modest fee to cover inspection and administration costs.
Code Compliance Supervisor Tyler Messer told council that since 2022 the city has required shopping‑cart containment plans and that staff now sees recurring…
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