Ordinance 3689-19 - Laserfiche WebLink

EVERETT WASHINGTON ORDINANCE NO. 3689-19 An Ordinance Relating to Mobile Food Unit Licensing, repealing chapter 21 of Ordinance No. 295-74, as amended (chapter 5.84 EMC) and amending chapter 9 of Ordinance No. 295-74, as amended (chapter 5.36 EMC) WHEREAS, A. The City's laws regulating mobile food units originally anticipated small-scale operations such as ice cream trucks and hotdog vendors moving along the streets or sidewalks of Everett and stopping temporarily for the sale of limited food items. B. The variety and complexity of food offered from mobile food units is growing and now primarily stationary mobile food units ("food trucks") are a popular way to sell and consume inexpensive, fast, quality food. C. Generally,food trucks move into a location and remain at that location for part or most of the day letting a consumer come to the food truck rather than the other way around. D. The City's laws regulating mobile food units have unintentionally captured food trucks, which do not create a risk to the public's safety that mobile food units moving along the streets or sidewalks throughout the City create. E. The City Council finds that food trucks increase the variety of quality food available to consumers in the City and improve the experience of residents and visitors to the City. F. Existing regulations that apply to most food trucks through street use permits, health district requirements, and fire inspections adequately promote the health, welfare, and safety of the general public. G. It is appropriate to repeal the City's Mobile Food Unit Ordinance in conjunction with the following considerations and amendments. H. Mobile food units that move along the streets and sidewalks should continue to be specially regulated due to the risk to public safety of mobile food units that do not stay in one identifiable location and often attract children as customers. I. Chapter 5.36 of the Everett Municipal Code (the "EMC"), Hawkers, Peddlers, and Solicitors, may be amended to regulate mobile food units that move along city streets and sidewalks.