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File Number: 14-211 <br />be regulated; and <br />5.To protect the public health and safety , minimum separation distances between different <br />mobile food vendors and specified land uses that have a high concentration of vehicular, <br />pedestrian and commercial activity around and within the areas of such land uses and the <br />adjacent public rights-of-way are necessary and in the public interest; and <br />6.Mobile food vending units should be subject to minimum separation distances from active <br />full service restaurants, cafes, delicatessens, fast food establishments and community <br />events because of the following characteristics of such land uses: High pedestrian and <br />vehicular activity in and around restaurant land uses and restaurant parking lots; high <br />concentrations of restaurant uses that service patrons during similar periods of time that <br />do not exist at other commercial enterprises during the same periods of time, with limited <br />on-street and off-street parking for the same uses; view obstacles to vehicular and <br />pedestrian traffic flow caused by larger vehicles , such as mobile food vending units; limited <br />parking requirements that facilitate safe vehicle and pedestrian traffic in and around mobile <br />food vending units and restaurant land uses; limited on-street parking spaces around <br />restaurant land uses, especially for larger vehicles such as mobile food vending units; and <br />7.Mobile food vending units are subject to minimum separation distances from schools <br />because of the following characteristics: Mobile food vending units attract children to <br />venture off school campuses , which poses a safety hazard related to unsupervised <br />children running across streets and rights-of-way to a mobile food vending unit; mobile <br />food vending units add to already existing congestion and traffic hazards around school <br />zones particularly during the beginning and end of the school day; and <br />8.Subject to appropriate standards for the public safety, health and welfare, mobile food <br />vending promotes the public interest by providing a needed service to locations in the City <br />underserved by restaurant land uses, activating underutilized spaces, especially in the <br />City’s industrial areas , complementing private and public properties, promoting unique <br />business opportunities and activities to residents and visitors, promoting arts and cultural <br />exchange through the culinary arts, and promoting an attractive street environment. <br />CHAPTER 4-34 MOBILE FOOD VENDING <br />4-34-100 Definitions <br />(a)“Mobile food vendor” shall mean a person who sells, serves or offers for sale cooked or <br />cold, prepackaged or prepared food for human consumption from a mobile food vending <br />unit(s) parked or located on private property, public property or within the public right of way, <br />including but not limited to streets and roads. A mobile food vendor may own and operate <br />more than one mobile food vending unit. Mobile ice cream vendors shall be considered mobile <br />food vendors except where otherwise stated and shall have additional requirements as <br />specified pursuant to Section 4-34-500 of this Chapter. <br />(b)“Mobile food vending unit” or “food truck” shall mean any motorized or trailer vehicle, <br />designed to be portable and not permanently attached to the ground from which only food and <br />beverages are sold, served free or sampled, displayed or offered for sale . Ice cream trucks <br />Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 6/10/2014