LOS ANGELES—A judge March 16 allowed a coalition of street vendors suing the city of Los Angeles over its no-vending zones to proceed with a legal challenge to the ordinance.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant finalized a tentative ruling he issued Wednesday, overruling the city’s first legal challenge to the petition brought Dec. 7 by three community groups—Community Power Collective, East Los Angeles Community Corp., and Inclusive Action for the City—and two sidewalk vendors, Merlin Alvarado and Ruth Monroy.
The petition challenges the city’s “no-vending zones” ordinance that prohibits sidewalk food sales within 500 feet of many of the city’s most popular neighborhoods and tourist destinations, including the Hollywood Walk of Fame….