City of North Port - File #: ORD. NO. 2023-20

• File #: ORD. NO. 2023-20
• Version: 1
• Name: Ordinance
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 6/22/2023
• In control: City Commission Regular Meeting
• On agenda: 9/26/2023
• Final action: 9/26/2023
• 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.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/26/2023	1	City Commission Regular Meeting	adopted	Pass
9/12/2023	1	City Commission Regular Meeting	read by title only	Pass
9/12/2023	1	City Commission Regular Meeting	continued for second reading	Pass
9/12/2023	1	City Commission Regular Meeting	continued for second reading	Pass

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...