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Council introduces broad food-and-mobile-business ordinance setting rules for sidewalk vendors, food trucks and parklets
Summary
After a lengthy public hearing, the Katy City Council introduced an ordinance that would regulate sidewalk vendors, food trucks and carts, temporary parklets, outdoor dining, microenterprise home kitchens and related activities; staff will prepare explanatory guidance and return with final text after minor edits.
The Katy City Council held a public hearing and introduced an ordinance to update the municipal code to address sidewalk vendors, food trucks and food carts, temporary parklets, outdoor dining, microenterprise home kitchen operations (Mikos), and related home-occupation and small-scale urban agriculture standards.
Planning staff framed the draft as a broad attempt to balance economic opportunity and public safety. The ordinance would implement state sidewalk-vending rules (including limits the city cannot override) while establishing operating standards the city can control: hours, maximum footprint, setback rules, restroom access when vendors stay more than an hour, and nuisance/cleanup requirements. For…
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