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activity in and around restaurant land uses and restaurant parking lots; high concentrations of <br /> restaurant uses that service patrons during similar periods of time that do not exist at other <br /> commercial enterprises during the same periods of time, with limited on-street and off-street <br /> parking for the same uses; view obstacles to vehicular and pedestrian traffic flow caused by <br /> larger vehicles, such as mobile food vending units; limited parking requirements that <br /> facilitate safe vehicle and pedestrian traffic in and around mobile food vending units and <br /> restaurant land uses; limited on-street parking spaces around restaurant land uses, especially <br /> for larger vehicles such as mobile food vending units; and <br /> 7. Mobile food vending units are subject to minimum separation distances from schools because <br /> of the following characteristics: Mobile food vending units attract children to venture off <br /> school campuses, which poses a safety hazard related to unsupervised children running <br /> across streets and rights-of-way to a mobile food vending unit; mobile food vending units <br /> add to already existing congestion and traffic hazards around school zones particularly during <br /> 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 City's <br /> industrial areas, complementing private and public properties,promoting unique business <br /> opportunities and activities to residents and visitors, promoting arts and cultural exchange <br /> 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 unit(s) <br /> 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 more <br /> than one mobile food vending unit. Mobile ice cream vendors shall be considered mobile food <br /> vendors except where otherwise stated and shall have additional requirements as specified <br /> 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 shall <br /> be considered mobile food vending units except where otherwise stated and shall have additional <br /> requirements as specified pursuant to Section 4-34-500 of this Chapter. <br /> (c) "Mobile ice cream vendor" shall mean any person engaged in the mobile food vending of <br /> frozen or refrigerated desserts, confections or novelties commonly known as ice cream, <br /> prepackaged candies,prepackaged snack foods or soft drinks. <br /> (d) "Ice cream truck" shall mean any motor vehicle, or trailer attached to a motorized vehicle <br /> engaged in the curbside vending or sale of frozen or refrigerated desserts, confections, or <br /> ORDNANCE NO.2014-008 2 <br />