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IN THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO ORDINANCE NO. 2014-008 ORDINANCE ADDING TITLE 4, CHAPTER 4-34 OF THE SAN LEANDRO MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO MOBILE FOOD VENDING The City Council of the City of San Leandro does ORDAIN as follows: SECTION 1. That a Chapter 4-34 of Article 4, entitled"Mobile Food Vending", is hereby added to the City of San Leandro Municipal Code, and shall, in its entirety, read as follows: Findings. The City Council for the City of San Leandro finds that: 1. California Vehicle Code section 22455 allows municipalities to regulate mobile food vending in order to protect public safety; and 2. Mobile food vending has the potential to pose dangers to the public health and welfare of residents of the City of San Leandro, including specific negative impacts on public safety, pedestrian and vehicular circulation and traffic. The City of San Leandro has a substantial public interest to provide regulations regarding the vending from vehicles that prevent health and safety hazards and preserve the public health, safety, and welfare related to such activities, especially for residents and visitors to the City of San Leandro; and 3. The primary purpose of the City's public streets and rights-of-way is to facilitate the free passage of vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians; and 4. The City of San Leandro intends to regulate mobile food vending in a manner that protects the public health, safety, and welfare,while also accommodating mobile food vending activity that promotes unique businesses and an active and social pedestrian environment. However,the unregulated use of the public streets and rights-of-way by mobile food vendors makes public streets and rights-of-way unsafe for vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians. Therefore, the operations of mobile food vendors in City rights-of-way should be regulated; and 5. To protect the public health and safety, minimum separation distances between different mobile food vendors and specified land uses that have a high concentration of vehicular, pedestrian and commercial activity around and within the areas of such land uses and the adjacent public rights-of-way are necessary and in the public interest; and 6. Mobile food vending units should be subject to minimum separation distances from active full service restaurants, cafes, delicatessens, fast food establishments and community events because of the following characteristics of such land uses: High pedestrian and vehicular 1