TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: A. Jerome Fletcher II, ICMA-CM, MPA, City Manager
TITLE: An Ordinance of the City of North Port, Florida, Related to the Operation of Mobile Food Vendors at the Warm Mineral Springs Park; Amending the Code of the City of North Port, Florida, Section 34-1; Providing for Findings; Providing for Conflicts; Providing for Severability; Providing for Codification; and Providing an Effective Date.
Recommended Action
First Reading: The City Commission continue Ordinance No. 2023-20 to second reading.
Recommended Action for Second Reading
Second Reading: Adopt Ordinance No. 2023-20 as presented.
Background Information
During the City Commission Regular Meeting held on February 9, 2021, the Commission adopted Ordinance No. 2021-09 with the following changes:
1. Sec. 34-1 (c) (1) a. 4. to read "City Center Green, a maximum of six designated spaces."
2. Sec. 34-1 (d) add clarifying language under hours of operation regarding prohibiting overnight parking.
Pursuant to the Commission's direction, staff included these changes in Ordinance No. 2021-09.
Section 34-1 (c) (1) a. 1-7 of the Code of the City of North Port, Florida, states:
"(c) Location. A mobile food vendor is authorized to operate in the following locations:
(1) City-owned property.
a. Location. A mobile food vendor may operate on city-owned or public property and the total operation must be contained within the area designated for their operation by the city manager or designee:
1. Dallas White Park, a maximum of four designated spaces;
2. The Garden of the Five Senses, a maximum of four designated spaces;
3. Highland Ridge Park, a maximum of one designated space;
4. City Center Green, a maximum of six designated spaces;
5. Blue Ridge Park, a maximum of two designated spaces;
6. McKibben Park, a maximum of two designated spaces;
7. Atwater Park, a maximum of two...
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