- March 28, 2024
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In response to a public hearing item on the Flagler Beach City Commission’s Feb. 9 meeting agenda, to discuss the possibility of outlawing mobile vendors in the city, residents have organized in opposition.
Residents Mark Woods, of The Golden Lion Café, and Carol Fisher, of the BeachHouse Beanery, have rallied against this potential ordinance by sending out emails and posting pleas on their Facebook pages, urging resident support
In reference to Sandy Kinney, who recently invested in a beachside ice-cream-truck business (read her story HERE), Fisher sent out the following statement, attaching each commissioner’s email and phone number to her letter.
“Sandy Kinney is a single mom, working THREE jobs to try to stay ahead,” she wrote. “As someone who is attempting to launch a business in Flagler Beach, I feel that this business owner is being treated unfairly … Let's inform the city that there are more important items to spend their time on than to put one more small business OUT OF BUSINESS!”
The ordinance item, as it is printed on the commission’s agenda reads as follows:
Ordinance 2012-02; creating Chapter 19, “Traffic and Motor Vehicles”, Article II, “Mobile Vendors” in the City of Flagler Beach Code of Ordinances; prohibiting mobile vendors from stopping or parking a motor vehicle on public rights-of-way for the purpose of selling or displaying merchandise, goods or services; providing for an exception for approved special events; providing for definitions; providing for codification, severability, and repeal of conflicting ordinances, and establishing an effective date – first reading.
The Flagler Beach City Commission will hold its next regular meeting 5:30 Thursday, Feb. 9, at its City Hall, at 105 S. Second St.