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Resolution Recommending Revisions to the Ann Arbor Sidewalk Vendor Program
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Whereas, The City of Ann Arbor supports the economic vitality and diversity that sidewalk vendors bring to the community;
Whereas, The City of Ann Arbor has attempted to encourage greater participation by local entrepreneurs in sidewalk vending opportunities by revising policies, fee structures, and ordinance enforcement directed towards sidewalk vendors;
Whereas, These revisions have led to some sidewalk vendors utilizing vendor trailers that are larger then a typical sidewalk vending trailer moved by a single person;
Whereas, These larger vending trailers have been towed by motorized vehicles onto city sidewalks, impeding pedestrian mobility and diminishing pedestrian safety;
Whereas, These larger vending trailers have been pushed by more then one person onto city sidewalks when informed by the City that motorized vehicles couldn’t be driven onto city sidewalks;
Whereas, These larger vending trailers have utilized motorized electrical generators, impeding disabled pedestrian mobility and diminishing pedestrian safety due to nuisance noise;
Whereas, Sidewalk vending trailers have been, and are presently, left on city sidewalks unattended after the close of business;
Whereas, These unattended sidewalk vending trailers have been left unattended for months and months with no vending business conducted;
Whereas, Adjacent property owners are responsible for the maintenance and replacement of sidewalk slabs;
Whereas, Adjacent property owners are responsible at their expense for the clearing of snow on the sidewalks adjacent to their property including the areas around unattended vending trailers;
Whereas, Sidewalk vendors are not required to share in the costs of sidewalk maintenance that adjacent property owners are; and
Whereas, Adjacent property owners have been unfairly required to provide economic benefit to sidewalk vendors by maintaining sidewalks at th...
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