>> steven cornell. i'm not familiar with the legislation but i know the food fares, someone wants to put a food facility, they have to provide sink and drainage facilities for each one of them. but if i go out and see a hot dog vendor out here in front of city hall, there's no sink there. there has to be some kind of consistency. i don't know if they do one or the other, but hopefully that's consistent. director dick-endrizzi: what's not in here is the health code regulations because the health code regulations are very specific and they're slight modifications for one-time event s for street fares as opposed to permanent, but all cart -- and one of the reasons we're doing this is because there are a lot of carts that are out there that are operating illegally and part of that reason is is that -- let's say for a pushcart, a pushcart can be anywhere from $12,000 to $18,000, so if you're not going to be able to get a permitted space, individuals are not investing in it. so that was part of the reason for

>> steven cornell. i'm not familiar with the legislation but i know the food fares, someone wants to put a food facility, they have to provide sink and drainage facilities for each one of them. but if i go out and see a hot dog vendor out here in front of city hall, there's no sink there. there has to be some kind of consistency. i don't know if they do one or the other, but hopefully that's consistent. director dick-endrizzi: what's not in here is the health code regulations because the health code regulations are very specific and they're slight modifications for one-time event s for street fares as

>> steven cornell. i'm not familiar with the legislation but i know the food fares, someone wants to put a od

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