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[quote=Anonymous]DCRA has paid lip service to limiting food trucks to designated vending zones on the Mall with a lottery system, just as it does elsewhere throughout the city. Perhaps there’s an issue in terms of a turf battle with NPS over regulating public space.  And DPW doesn’t make much of an effort to enforce parking restrictions, including the junk cars with Marylsndcsnd Virginia tags parked overnite to reserve spaces.

The food truck association has been spreading around some campaign dollars and bought friends in the Wilson Building. Meanwhile visitors to the Mall experience unsightly view sheds from the Capitol to the Washington Monument, overflowing garbage cans, rat infestations, noise and exhaust from generators, cringey music and blocked crosswalks. It’s a blight on the monumental core of the nation’s capital. The hands-off approach of the regulatory agencies has resulted in chaos stemming from a vacuum of enforcement. Vendors understand there will be no consequence to flouting the law except for the occasional $30 parking ticket they’ll pay as a cost of doing business.

Hardly the most pressing issue but does the city have the need for 15 ice cream trucks and 12 hotdog trucks on 14th Street, none of which are registered in DC? If memories serve me, souvenir vendors used to be restricted to Independence and Constitution Avenues, with a few along 15th and 18th north of Constitution. [/quote]

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