5.07.090 Mobile Food and Street Food Vendor and Food Court Standards:
All mobile and street vendors licensed under this chapter shall conform to the following standards:
A. No mobile food or street food vendor shall operate from one (1) location in a residential zone as defined in Title 18 for longer than fifteen (15) minutes at a time.
B. No mobile food or street food vendor shall locate his or her vehicle or conveyance in that portion of public right-of-way abutting private property without the written permission of the owner of the abutting private property. No food shall be offered, displayed, or sold, and no customers served, in any vehicle travel lane. A mobile food or street food vendor shall not be located within five feet (5') from the outside edge of any public right-of-way.
C. No signs or signage shall be permitted other than that which can be contained on the vehicle or conveyance utilized.
D. The distance between any food vendor and other structures on the site shall comply with the requirements of the International Fire Code, as currently enacted or hereinafter amended.
E. No vehicle, mobile food, street food vendor, other conveyance or temporary stand shall locate closer than fifty feet (50') from flammable combustible liquid or gas storage and dispensing structures.
F. All mobile food and street food vendors shall have at least one (1) adequately sized and properly secured garbage receptacle upon the site of business or on the vehicle or conveyance for customer use.
G. Sites used by mobile food or street food vendors, or food courts shall be cleaned of all debris, trash, and litter at the conclusion of daily business activities.
H. All vehicles, mobile food vendor, street food vendor, other conveyances, or temporary stands shall be equipped with at least one (1) fire extinguisher approved by the Fire Department, with an up-to-date annual inspection tag provided.
I. All tents with dimensions larger than ten feet (10') by ten feet (10') must conform to labeling and certification which shall be done in accordance with the currently adopted and amended state fire code.
1. The tent shall be of vinyl, canvas, or similar durable material. All parts of such tent must have a minimum of seven feet (7') of vertical clearance to the ground.
2. All tents shall be anchored in accordance with requirements of the International Fire Code, as currently adopted or hereinafter amended.
3. Cooking under tents shall conform with each of the following requirements:
a. Any tent that is placed over any cooking apparatus, or near a heat source, shall be of a flame-retardant material, and require approval from the Fire Department.
b. Tents with cooking devices are not allowed to be open to the public.
c. Cooking devices are not allowed to obstruct the exit access, exit or exit discharge.
d. Cooking devices located under tents with sidewalls shall have cooking devices located a minimum of three feet (3') from tent walls.
e. Cooking surfaces shall have a minimum vertical clearance of forty-two inches (42") to tent structure when the tent dimensions do not exceed ten feet (10') by ten feet (10'), and a minimum vertical clearance of forty-eight inches (48") when the tent dimensions exceed ten feet (10') by ten feet (10').
f. A minimum rated 2A-10BC fire extinguisher shall be located within each tent.
g. If grease-laden vapors are produced, a six (6) liter class K extinguisher shall be located within the tent.
h. All compressed gas cylinders shall be restrained to prevent dislodging.
J. No mobile food or street food vendor shall sell or vend from his or her vehicle or conveyance:
1. Within four hundred feet (400') of any public or private school grounds during the hours of regular school session, classes, or school-related events in said public or private school, except when authorized by said school.
2. Within three hundred feet (300') of any public park of the City where any City-authorized concession stand is located during times other than during the course of a public celebration except as approved by the Parks and Recreation Department of the City.
3. Within three hundred feet (300') of any public park of the City where any City authorized concession stand is located during the course of a public celebration when nonprofit organizations are permitted to engage in the sale of merchandise and food in such park.
4. Within three hundred feet (300') of any public park or other public space during a special event for which organizations are permitted to sell merchandise and/or food in the park or public space for a fee, unless the mobile food or street food vendor obtains written permission from the coordinator of the event.
K. No mobile food or street food vendor shall conduct business so as to violate the traffic and sidewalk ordinances of the City as now in effect or hereafter amended.
L. No mobile food or street food vendor, acting solo or as part of a food court, shall obstruct or cause to be obstructed the passage of any sidewalk, street, avenue, alley or any other public place, by causing people to congregate at or near the place where goods, wares, food, or merchandise of any kind is being sold or offered for sale.
M. Generators shall not be operated from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. (Ord. 3045, 3/26/24; Ord. 2988, 9/28/21; Ord. 2924, 4/23/19; Ord. 2824, 9/27/16; Ord. 2784, 10/13/15; Ord. 1619, 1994)