Should brick-and-mortar shops be able to veto sidewalk vendors? (Woodland: leases, neighborhoods)

[MItoBH]

I have no need or desire to ever use street vendors. They should pay rent and taxes like B&M businesses do.

[HB2HSV]

Who owns the sidewalk?

[l1995]

I thought you were a staunch conservative, don't you support capitalism?

[CaliforniaGal]

Originally Posted by jm1982

True . These are some of the practical issues that the advocates of these vendors don't seem to think about .

There was also the guy in the article that ran the hotel and he mentioned how if people are grilling up meat on the street and it goes into the guest hotel rooms they aren't going to be happy .

I don't know I think someone that spent the several hundred thousand or so that it seems to cost to open a brick and mortar should have some priority over someone that came here illegally and set up a little stand on the street .

If this is all these particular immigrants are able to do in order to support themselves maybe we don't need them here?
Just a thought .
Nothing in our constitution says we have to be a dumping ground for the worlds poor.

There has been a food cart down at the corner of Oceangate/Rosecrans in Hawthorne. He is parked right at a gas station (Union 76). He has a bunch of fruit and I have no idea what he is fixing but he's a nuisance. That light there takes forever to turn green and when it does, people are busy looking over at this guy or his customers, and do not pay attention to that damn light. It infuriates me. I could not believe that they let this guy park a cart there. We also have a man who walks around our neighborhood honking a horn with a grocery basket selling corn. Really? It's embarrassing because we are not a third world country. When I have friends over - they will say, "what is that?"

[V8 Vega]

I hate being sick. It's no fun being sick. No way will I ever buy anything from a street vendor. I'm not going to take that chance.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by CaliforniaGal

There has been a food cart down at the corner of Oceangate/Rosecrans in Hawthorne. He is parked right at a gas station (Union 76). He has a bunch of fruit and I have no idea what he is fixing but he's a nuisance. That light there takes forever to turn green and when it does, people are busy looking over at this guy or his customers, and do not pay attention to that damn light. It infuriates me. I could not believe that they let this guy park a cart there. We also have a man who walks around our neighborhood honking a horn with a grocery basket selling corn. Really? It's embarrassing because we are not a third world country. When I have friends over - they will say, "what is that?"

Welllllllllllllll, on the way to being like one.

[Chicano3000X]

Originally Posted by MItoBH

I have no need or desire to ever use street vendors. They should pay rent and taxes like B&M businesses do.

Wait til' you walk back to the train or Uber after a long night of drinking..

[Chicano3000X]

Originally Posted by CaliforniaGal

There has been a food cart down at the corner of Oceangate/Rosecrans in Hawthorne. He is parked right at a gas station (Union 76). He has a bunch of fruit and I have no idea what he is fixing but he's a nuisance. That light there takes forever to turn green and when it does, people are busy looking over at this guy or his customers, and do not pay attention to that damn light. It infuriates me. I could not believe that they let this guy park a cart there. We also have a man who walks around our neighborhood honking a horn with a grocery basket selling corn. Really? It's embarrassing because we are not a third world country. When I have friends over - they will say, "what is that?"

Welcome to Los Angeles. We had someone like that in my neighborhood that would shout "TAMALES!". We'd stop them and my grandma would get a fresh batch of tamales.

There's a fruit guy on the corner nearby. Sometimes I stop by and get a container. Really hits the spot.

Maybe you should consider just treating yourself. Trust me Squidward.

[jm1982]

Originally Posted by HB2HSV

Who owns the sidewalk?

Not illegal aliens . Although they sure are acting like they own them .

[l1995]

Acting like such suburbanites!

In New York we have street carts all over the place, I don't hear anyone complain about them.