The city estimates there are 50,000 vendors in L.A., yet only 900 permits were being issued yearly.
Street vendor Ronald Pleasant, who sells trinkets and water at Hollywood and Highland, takes advantage of his own product as temperatures were in the 90’s in Hollywood, CA on Monday, July 17, 2023. Street vendors in the city of Los Angeles will no longer have to pay hundreds of dollars to obtain a permit after the Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance on Friday June 28, that significantly reduces the cost.
Council members Traci Park, Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Monica Rodriguez were absent during the vote.“But the financial costs alone were still enough to prevent vendors from operating legally — and that changes today,” Raman said. Street vendors protest in front of the Public Works Building in Los Angeles Friday, May 1, 2020. Street vendors will caravan from 5 different neighborhoods and meet in Downtown Los Angeles to demand the City provide relief to some of the most impacted and vulnerable workers. At the Department of Public Works building vendors will be demanding a halt to all ticketing and a reimbursement of permit fees.
The fee study noted the city had previously set the permit cost at $291 between 2019-2022, and it remained unchanged due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 2022-23 fiscal year, staff proposed the fee to increase to $541, which elected officials held off on imposing on street vendors.
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