Parking pilot program and Secreto liquor license approved and more at Monday night's meeting.
After an hour of discussion Monday night, the Ferndale City Council decided to wait a couple of more weeks before acting on the regulation of street and mobile vendors while approving the Metro Detroit Street Eats food truck rally as a monthly event. Here are the highlights from Monday's council meeting: Members of City Council were rendered speechless at various points of Monday’s meeting during the final discussion of proposed restrictions to Ferndale’s street and mobile vendors. The Downtown Development Authority proposed a resolution regulating public vending spaces, in attempts to reduce the days and operation times of local street vendors, set fees for them and eliminate the option to use sandwich board signs. DDA Director Cristina …
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Council needs to approve the second Street Eats event set for this Thursday, allowing it to become a monthly event in downtown Ferndale.
When Ferndale City Council meets tonight at 7:30 in City Hall, it will address a number of matters on the agenda. Here’s a look at a few of the hot-topic items that will be discussed: You can view the full agenda here. Tonight’s meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, 300 E. Nine Mile Rd.
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G-Money
12:31 pm on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
What did the city council expect? They should never had thought getting the DDA's recommendation on this would be anything but biased against the street vendors and food trucks. It is a complete conflict of interest. The DDA gets all of its money through increased property taxes in the downtown. If they add extra competition against any new or present businesses that pay those taxes, they would … more ›