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File #: 00571    Version: 1 Name: Sidewalk merchant vending
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/16/2005 In control: VENDING OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE (prior to 11-01-2007)
On agenda: 2/7/2006 Final action: 2/7/2006
Enactment date: 2/24/2006 Enactment #: ORD-06-00013
Title: Amending Section 9.13(6)(e)2., deleting Section 9.13(6)(h)4., renumbering Section 9.13(6)(h)5., amending Sections 9.13(6)(j)1.b. and c., and creating Section 9.13(6)(j)4. of the Madison General Ordinances to create procedures for non-street level restaurants to have a sidewalk cafe on the State Street Mall/Capitol Concourse, creating a priority system for assigning merchant vending and sidewalk cafe sites between businesses on different levels of the same building, and amending related licensing requirements.
Sponsors: Michael E. Verveer, Cindy Thomas
Attachments: 1. 3512sidewalk-vending.pdf
Fiscal Note
Minimal Increase in General Revenue Fund.
Title
Amending Section 9.13(6)(e)2., deleting Section 9.13(6)(h)4., renumbering Section 9.13(6)(h)5., amending Sections 9.13(6)(j)1.b. and c., and creating Section 9.13(6)(j)4. of the Madison General Ordinances to create procedures for non-street level restaurants to have a sidewalk cafe on the State Street Mall/Capitol Concourse, creating a priority system for assigning merchant vending and sidewalk cafe sites between businesses on different levels of the same building, and amending related licensing requirements.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Paragraph 2. entitled "Contiguously Located Street Level, or Corresponding non Street-level Merchant" of Subdivision (e) entitled "Definitions" of Subsection (6) entitled "Regulations and Procedures for Vending on the State Street Mall/Capitol Concourse" of Section 9.13 entitled "License For Selling On Public Streets" of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
"2. a. Contiguously Located Street Level, or Corresponding non Street-level Merchant or Restaurant. A merchant or restaurant is considered to be "contiguously located, "street level" if its place of business is located on the ground floor of a building with a street address that abuts a public sidewalk and there is space on that sidewalk that is not otherwise prohibited for vending by the Madison General Ordinances.
b. Corresponding Non Street-Level Merchant or Restaurant. A Contiguously located street level, or merchant or restaurant is considered to be a corresponding non street-level, merchant means a business whose place of business is located on the ground floor abutting the sidewalk or if it is located in the same building as a contiguously located street level merchant business, but not on the ground floor. provided the business has available to it sidewalk space immediately adjacent to the street level merchant's business wh...

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