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Cleveland council directs staff to draft new rules for seasonal food vendors, including spacing and restroom requirements
Summary
City staff presented draft language to create a new "seasonal food establishment" category that would require permits, site plans, spacing rules, fixed restrooms and minimum infrastructure; council asked for refinements and legal review and directed staff to return with a revised ordinance.
Council members on April 21 directed city staff to draft amendments to the city’s mobile food vendor ordinance aimed at regulating semi‑permanent and seasonal food operations.
Emilio Lavario, the city’s director of community and economic development, presented preliminary redline language that would create a new "seasonal food establishment" classification separate from transient food trucks. The draft would require a city permit and property owner authorization, site‑plan approval, minimum site improvements (all‑weather surfaces and enclosed dumpsters), access to fixed…
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