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there are repeated and regular deliveries of food made on the street while the delivery vehicle <br />is stopped and double parked so vehicles are forced to drive around a stationary delivery vehicle, at <br />times a vehicle parked behind the food vending truck is used to store supplies or homemade food, <br />at busy times bags of trash are stuffed under the truck, at times bags of onions and food can be seen <br />stored on the ground, customer's vehicles often park at the red curb near the parked food vending <br />truck without regard for a school crosswalk at that corner, pedestrians who must navigate a <br />congestion of customers on the public sidewalk and sitting eating on the raised planter curb. <br />Unneighborly behavior includes parking too close to an "entrance only" store driveway, so <br />close that folks leaving the neighborhood can't see around the large parked food vending truck so <br />that any vehicles that may mistakenly exit could be impossible to see in time to avoid a collision, it <br />can be scary. <br />Residents have and can make lists of problems associated with parked food vending trucks <br />and gangster -like desperado tactics on the streets. Neighbors have worked and <br />continue to work with City and County agencies to try and find resolution. <br />Complaints can be specific and documented. <br />Santa Ana residents have a right to find food vending trucks taking over neighborhood streets and <br />parked in front of or nearby follt's homes unacceptable. Put yourself in their shoes, would you want <br />to live near or next to a monopolizing parking hogging food vending truck with lingering crowds, <br />noise, trash, billowing cooking smells and @ night light pollution too? I think not. <br />Please do what's right for residents and neighborhoods, work to keep parked food vending trucks <br />out of residential neighborhoods, at least don't make them more comfortable <br />by providing amenities like electrical outlets while parked on residential public streets and public <br />right of ways. Please work to find places in the City to provide for food vending trucks for a <br />fee dedicated, attractive, electrical hook-up provided areas with lighting, restrooms, hand washing, <br />tables, seating and shade. City restaurants, residents and neighborhoods will thank you. <br />Sincerely, <br />Ginelle Hardy <br />Heninger Park, President <br />ginetleann@gmail.com <br />