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Filed December 1, 2008 at 12:54 pm by Ken Hawkins in Business, Food, Politics, Offbeat, vendors, roadside, regulation, North Charleston, headache.

Street vendor regulation turns into nightmarish headache

The Post and Courier on the recently passed law regulating roadside vendors:

The vendors don’t like having to pay $10 every day they set up. City business license staff can barely get other work done with the daily stream of license buyers.

I understand why North Charleston felt compelled to institute some regulation, but this seems over the top. Seems like they’d be better off putting up no-vending signs in problematic areas, and just keep the $25 vending license as a way to make sure everyone sticks to the rules.