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2024 Possible Mounds View City Code Amendments <br />1) Chapter 120 — Mobile Food Vehicles and Vendors — Better define vendor. Need to address <br />those selling food from tents, tables, etc. What are they called? What about the Lions? <br />What about vendors at Pinewood Carnival? Kimchi Festival? Need to clarifv these types <br />of events. Or remove licensing requirement entirely. Require proof of County/State <br />licensing and property use authorization. We can have Ramsey County contact us when <br />food truck licenses for locations in Mounds View are issued. (Attachment) <br />Policy Issues <br />1. Public Health (food safety) <br />2. Impact to Brick and Mortar that pay property taxes <br />3. Optics — Visual/Storage <br />Current Ordinance — We license to control the number of days they operate in a location (21 <br />days) 120.003. <br />Ramsey County regulates all food and licenses Food Trucks — this addresses Policy issue #1. <br />Council may consider their impact to local brick and mortar restaurants that pay property taxes <br />as a public policy issue. Absent a substantive fee, the current revenue only offsets the <br />administrative costs in issuing the license. <br />In terms of Optics (some might say they are ugly) but difficult to differentiate from other large <br />objects, trucks, RV, Boats, etc. Other than requiring them to be in good order or outright <br />prohibition — difficult to regulate. <br />Circle Pines, Lauderdale, Arden Hills, Little Canada, Vadnais all do not license. Arden Hills <br />used to until the county started licensing after which they stopped. White Bear Lake does — <br />concerns over street parking/obstruction (in their downtown area). Champlin does but is <br />considering discontinuing. <br />Staff Recommendation <br />1. Discontinue licensure as County addresses the greatest concern, public health from <br />preparation and serving of food. <br />2. By Code, require that Mobile Food Trucks be licensed by the County or State Department <br />of Agriculture. Failure to do so makes them subject to penalty/fines under chapter 10.099 <br />3. By Code — restrict parking as council deems appropriate (not allowed on streets for more <br />than X days, not allowed ??? <br />