Street vendors along main street across from the Pico House in Los Angeles on Friday, July 14, 2023. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Good for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for moving forward with plans to allow and to regulate street vendors in the unincorporated parts of the county. The county would join about 16 cities here that have crafted their own rules for vendors.
Weirdly, as Rebecca Ellis explained last month in the L.A. Times, for the last five years, “vendors hawking grilled meats, fresh fruit and used clothes on the streets of unincorporated L.A. County have been stuck in a strange legal gray area: no longer banned, but not yet regulated.”
But a new board resolution, supported by four of the five supervisors so far, would create an ordinance that would set rules for how the vendors can legally…
