LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood Walk of Fame has long been a place where street vendors sell food, T-shirts and novelty items, but the city of Los Angeles is beginning in earnest to enforce a program to push most of them off the busiest part of the boulevard by enforcing a section of the city’s…
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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles is the only major city in America that prohibits street vending, but that may be changing after a City Council committee Dec. 12 advanced a proposal to decriminalize it. The proposal put forward by council members Joe Buscaino and Curren Price would replace criminal penalties with a permit system enforced…
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LOS ANGELES — A City Council committee has voted to study a street vending system that could serve as a compromise between stakeholders who are divided on whether to legalize vending citywide or permit it only in some parts of the city, according to the panel’s chair. Members of the Economic Development Committee were presented with an…
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