Mission Beach leaders file complaint over city's lack of street vendor enforcement

Frustrated by the high volume of street vendors in Mission Beach, neighborhood leaders there filed a complaint Monday with the California Coastal Commission seeking help with the problem.

The complaint, filed jointly by the Mission Beach Town Council and the Mission Beach Precise Planning Board, says a ballot measure approved by city voters in 1987 bans street vendors from Belmont Park and nearby areas. The measure, Proposition G, was approved by 67 percent of voters and rejected by 33 percent, the complaint says. The measure limited retail uses in that part of central Mission Beach to The Plunge building, the roller coaster and related uses.

The measure says no retail or commercial activity can happen in grass, picnic, public parking or recreational areas. Those are the areas where the vendors have been operating since the state loosened street vendor laws three years ago. “We believe that the city of San Diego has violated the California Coastal Act and the city’s municipal code for the last several years by allowing street vending, which is an obvious retail use, to take over Mission Beach Park,” the two groups say in their joint complaint.The complaint comes less than a week after San Diego began enforcing a crackdown on street vendors that aims to reduce chaos and restore the look and feel of many popular areas that have been flooded with vendors.

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