(a) The Commissioner shall have the authority to: (1) establish areas on the public ways of the City, and, following consultation with affected City departments, on other City property, for designation as farmers markets; (2) assign spaces at farmers markets to permitted growers and producers in accordance with Section 4-12-120; (3) relocate or discontinue any farmers market; (4) specify the days of the week and hours of the day that farmers markets may operate; and (5) determine which goods may be sold at farmers markets in accordance with Section 4-12-090. Prior to establishing or relocating a farmers market in any ward of the City, the Commissioner shall provide the applicable local alderman with an opportunity to object in writing to the establishment or relocation of a farmers market there if such establishment or relocation will substantially or unnecessarily: (i) interfere with a publicly managed infrastructure project in the area; or (ii) interfere with pedestrian or vehicular traffic in the area, based on factors such as estimated attendance at the market, population density of the area, required street closures, or similar factors; or (iii) interfere with a parade, carnival or other previously scheduled event in the area; or (iv) interfere with the ability of other City departments to provide proper fire or police protection or ambulance or sanitation services in the area or at the market; or (v) subject the surrounding neighborhood to an unreasonable degree of noise, littering or parking difficulties in light of the character of the neighborhood; or (vi) create other objectively identifiable problems in the area.
(b) No farmers market shall be established or relocated within or on any sidewalk that abuts Millennium Park.
(Prior code § 35.1-8; Amend Coun. J. 6-6-84, p. 7030; 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 12-4-02, p. 99026, § 3.1; Amend Coun. J. 5-9-07, p. 104052, § 4; Amend Coun. J. 6-11-08, p. 29506, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 11-17-10, p. 106597, Art. VII, § 2; Amend Coun. J. 3-13-19, p. 96592, § 10)