{"id":857,"date":"2025-12-15T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timgaspar.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:48:47","slug":"l-a-s-street-vending-crisis-is-a-symptom-of-a-city-that-has-stopped-enforcing-its-own-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timgaspar.com\/es\/l-a-s-street-vending-crisis-is-a-symptom-of-a-city-that-has-stopped-enforcing-its-own-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"La crisis de los vendedores ambulantes en Los \u00c1ngeles es un s\u00edntoma de una ciudad que ha dejado de hacer cumplir sus propias reglas."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LA Street Vendors in Los Angeles. Delicious or a nuisance?\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VpCbqeLWAO4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ON THE RECORD &#8211; In Los Angeles, even parking has become a battleground. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2025\/12\/09\/the-battle-for-street-parking-in-l-a-one-man-wages-war-through-tiktok-requests\">Los Angeles Times&nbsp;<\/a>recently profiled Joey Morales,&nbsp; the self-appointed \u201cCone King, who roams the city removing cones, trash bins, and makeshift barriers used by residents to stake claim to public parking spaces. His TikTok crusade captures a larger truth about life in L.A.: when the city fails to enforce basic rules, people begin making up their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see this same breakdown playing out on our sidewalks every day in the West Valley, where unregulated street vending has exploded. As a lifelong small-business advocate, I believe deeply in entrepreneurship. When I see a street vendor, I don\u2019t always see a problem; I see a person striving for a better life, someone with the ambition and drive that built this city in the first place. I want these residents to succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I also want fairness. And right now, our system isn\u2019t fair to anyone \u2014 not the vendors, not brick-and-mortar businesses, not neighborhoods, and not the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What Street Vending Looks Like in the Valley Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drive through parts of the Valley, and you\u2019ll see vendors operating with zero oversight. Many block sidewalks, dump trash and oil directly into storm drains, set up operations in the street, and unintentionally create traffic hazards. This isn\u2019t about blaming immigrants or stigmatizing people who are simply trying to earn a living. It is about acknowledging the reality that these operations, in the absence of any health, safety, or permitting standards, have real impacts on neighborhoods.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When these conditions go unchecked, they compromise the safety and integrity of our public spaces. That is one reason I&nbsp;have called on my opponents to join me in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/timgaspar.com\/es\/tim-gaspar-calls-on-opponents-to-join-him-in-supporting-enforcement-ofl-a-municipal-code-41-18-to-protect-schools-parks-and-libraries\/\">supporting the enforcement of&nbsp;Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 41.18<\/a>,&nbsp;the city ordinance that allows Councilmembers to prohibit individuals from lying, sleeping, blocking, or storing personal property in public rights-of-way and in front of schools, parks, and libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most importantly, these vendors directly compete with restaurants and food operators who&nbsp;do&nbsp;play by the rules: they pay rent, pay workers&#8217; compensation, adhere to strict county health codes, and operate under all the regulatory burdens the city places on legitimate businesses. When the government refuses to enforce its own regulations, it creates a massive and unfair advantage for those who skirt them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why Enforcement Isn\u2019t Happening \u2014 And Why That Hurts Everyone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, the truth is simple: there is virtually no enforcement from the city or the county on street vending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>County health officials claim they lack the manpower for inspections, but sources inside the system have told me something very different \u2014 that the real concern is political optics. They worry that enforcing health and safety rules in immigrant communities will \u201clook bad\u201d at a time when federal immigration actions are dominating headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I understand the sensitivity. But avoiding enforcement entirely isn\u2019t compassionate \u2014 it\u2019s negligent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the city steps back, chaos steps in. Just as residents start placing cones to \u201creserve\u201d street parking because they assume no one will stop them, street vendors start operating however they see fit, knowing no one will intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A city that refuses to enforce its own rules leaves everyone worse off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Better Path Forward: Support Vendors, Don\u2019t Abandon Standards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My position is not to shut down street vendors. Far from it. In a perfect world \u2014 and it\u2019s a world we&nbsp;can&nbsp;build \u2014 the city and county would enforce basic rules not to punish vendors, but to bring them into the system. Enforcement should be paired with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A streamlined, affordable licensing program<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vendors should have a clear, simple pathway to legitimize their businesses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A city-supported entrepreneurship program<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We should help vendors access training, microloans, small business services, and coaching so they can grow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Health and safety education<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Restaurants and food trucks meet rigorous public health standards for a reason. Sidewalk food vendors should have support to meet those same standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fair competition protections<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Restaurants that invest in our neighborhoods, employ workers, and pay taxes cannot be asked to compete with a shadow economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what a real solution looks like: compassion matched with accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>L.A. Needs Leadership That Believes in Both Rules and Opportunity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cone King\u2019s videos resonated because Angelenos instinctively understand something our government keeps forgetting: public spaces only work when everyone follows the same basic rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Street vending is no different. We can embrace the entrepreneurial spirit of these vendors while still protecting the health, safety, and economic well-being of our neighborhoods. But we cannot continue pretending that ignoring the problem will make it go away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A city that wants to be fair must have standards. A city that wants to support opportunity must enforce them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s time to bring street vendors into the legitimate economy,&nbsp; and it\u2019s time for City Hall to finally do its job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Tim Gaspar is a Businessman and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/timgaspar.com\/es\/\">Candidate for L.A. City Council&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; West Valley)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL D\u00cdA \u2013 En Los \u00c1ngeles, incluso estacionarse se ha convertido en un campo de batalla. El *Los Angeles Times* present\u00f3 recientemente el caso de Joey Morales, el autoproclamado \u201cRey de los Conos\u201d, quien recorre la ciudad retirando conos, botes de basura y barreras improvisadas que algunos residentes utilizan para apropiarse de espacios p\u00fablicos de estacionamiento. Su cruzada en TikTok refleja una verdad m\u00e1s amplia sobre la vida en Los \u00c1ngeles:\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-editorial","category-los-angeles","category-small-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>L.A.\u2019s Street Vending Crisis Is a Symptom of a City That Has Stopped Enforcing Its Own Rules - Gaspar for City Council<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/timgaspar.com\/es\/l-a-s-street-vending-crisis-is-a-symptom-of-a-city-that-has-stopped-enforcing-its-own-rules\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"L.A.\u2019s Street Vending Crisis Is a Symptom of a City That Has Stopped Enforcing Its Own Rules - Gaspar for City Council\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ON THE RECORD &#8211; In Los Angeles, even parking has become a battleground. 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