(a) The City of Kent recognizes and supports the vitality and activity that is created by outdoor business activities within the City and the benefit that mobile food services bring to the City and local businesses.
(b) The purpose of establishing these regulations is to create a pleasant and vibrant environment for local businesses, visitors and residents, to provide an opportunity for limited mobile food services operations at City and/or business or industrial properties, to prevent the obstruction of pedestrian, bicycle and motor vehicle traffic, to ensure that adequate efforts are made to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public by requiring permits for mobile food units and to establish minimum requirements for the permitting operation of such units as defined by the Ohio Fire Code.
(Ord. 2022-004. Passed 1-19-22.)