(A) Requirements. All vending shall be subject to and in compliance with the following requirements:
(1) Business license. Each owner shall have a valid and current city business license.
(2) Peddler/vendor permit. Each owner shall have a valid and current peddler/vendor permit.
(3) Health permit. Each owner causing the sale of or offering for sale any produce, food or edibles shall have a valid health permit issued by the appropriate governmental agency.
(4) Insurance. Each owner shall have general liability and, when applicable, automobile insurance with coverage in the amounts and with the named additional insured as required by the City Attorney's office.
(5) Decal/public property use fee. Each person engaged in vending shall, in a conspicuous location on the vehicle, display a city-issued decal visible to the general public. The decal shall be issued when:
(a) The owner has provided the city with evidence of compliance with divisions (A)(1) through (A)(4) above;
(b) The owner's proposed operation has been reviewed and approved by the city as complying with the municipal code;
(c) The owner has paid the peddler/ vendor permit fee.
(6) Self-contained vehicle. Any vehicle must be totally self-contained and may not use the utilities on the site on which it is operating, with the exception of restroom facilities if permitted by the site owner.
(7) May not impede access. Vehicles shall not be located in such a way as to block required parking spaces or driveways, impede vehicular or pedestrian access on public or private property, create a hazardous disruption in the flow of traffic on public roadways or sidewalks, or encroach on landscaped areas by the vehicle, or customers.
(8) Stopping. Food trucks may not stop on a public street for more than ten minutes to sell food in commercial and industrial areas of the city.
(9) Private property. Subject to other limitations in this chapter, food trucks may park on private property with approval of the property owner and city.
(B) Areas prohibited. Vending shall not be permitted:
(1) On Main Street, east of 8th Street, and west of 11th Street;
(2) Upon any alley or roadway median;
(3) Within 100 feet of any residentially developed property unless visiting a construction site where two or more dwellings are under construction with an active, valid building permit;
(4) Within 100 feet of the nearest curb or edge of pavement on the cross roadway of any inter-section of two or more public roadways;
(5) Within 100 feet of any freeway on-ramp or off-ramp as defined in the California Vehicle Code;
(6) Within 500 feet of the property line of any place of worship, or public or private school;
(7) On any public park unless the vendor has formal authorization from the City Recreation Director;
(8) To take up more than 30 feet of parallel parking area on a roadway for the vendor's vehicle, and the vendor shall not indicate exclusive roadway parking or reserve any public parking area for its customer parking;
(9) Upon any specific roadway, or portion thereof, which as a result of the limited parking, limited line of sight, traffic control impacts, high traffic flow is designated by the Public Works Director/City Engineer as unsafe for vending.
(C) Signs. The only signs permitted shall be a sign not to exceed three square feet which may be affixed to two opposite, parallel sides of a vehicle displaying, offering or storing goods or merchandise for sale.
(D) Number of vendors and sales persons. The city may limit the number of vendors at anyone location or within an area, or limit the number of sales persons or others engaged in the act of vending for anyone owner at the requested or approved location.
(E) Noise or music while parked. No noise or music shall be played, created or sounded while a vehicle is parked or stationary.
('81 Code, § 5.44.130) (Ord. 978, passed - -94 -94; Am. Ord. 1309, passed 7-7-21) Penalty, see § 121.99