Seattle Municipal Archives Digital Collections

The Board of Public Works authorized street vending carts in 1972, with a one-page document providing all of the regulations for cart owners. As the number of vendors increased over the next decade, the city saw a need to update those regulations and commissioned a report from the Engineering Department to clarify existing regulations and recommend improvements.

This series includes that report, its drafts and appendices, records of public forums, and correspondence about the new regulations. It also includes research done into other cities' regulations, news clippings about response to the updates, and a collection of street vendor permits and invoices from before and after the new regulations took effect.