LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — More street vendors have been seen setting up shop across the Las Vegas valley. Operators are selling their food, made to order. But soon, they may have to change the way they’re running their business.
“It’s great food. Great, quality stuff. Everyone’s cool and it’s a lot of fun,” said one customer who stopped to grab a late night snack from a stand located at the intersection of Desert Inn Road and Fort Apache Road in the west valley.
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While the reaction has been mostly positive from customers, street vendors do have to operate under a very specific set of rules, recently established by Senate Bill 92. The law provided a path to legalize street food vending across the state and gave jurisdictions, like the City of Las Vegas and Clark County, the platform to set their own regulations.
In January, the City of Las Vegas proposed an ordinance that would require street vendors to pay a total of $200 in business licensing and processing fees. Vendors would also have to provide a health card, health permit and sales tax permit.
Last fall, Clark County passed an ordinance that prohibits street food vending within 1,500 feet of a resort hotel, an event facility with capacity of over 20,000 seats for a minor or major league team, the convention center and in a median or highway, if adjacent to a parking lot. For example, the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Sign.
The county is still working to establish separate rules that address licensing fees.
Meantime, separate task forces have been created to figure out ways to make licenses more affordable and accessible to street food vendors.
Channel 13 also contacted the Southern Nevada Health District to learn more about the do’s and dont’s regarding street vending. In 2023, the health district received 230 unpermitted vending complaints
“The volume of complaints has been steady without any significant increase,” said a health district spokesperson.
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The health district also has two dedicated employees assigned to investigate complaints.
“The SNHD has not currently issued any permits for sidewalk vendors. Any vendors currently operating are unpermitted. When sidewalk vendors do obtain a health permit, they must be compliant with all current SNHD regulations,” the spokesperson said.
A recent Review-Journal letter to the editor mischaracterized Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act, also known as the Clark County Lands bill. As the former executive director of the Nevada Conservation League, I wholeheartedly support this legislation, so I wanted to set the record straight.
Sen. Cortez Masto has been working on this bill for years in partnership with state and local governments, conservation groups like the NCL and local area tribes. It’s true that the Clark County lands bill would open 25,000 acres to help Las Vegas grow responsibly, while setting aside 2 million acres for conservation. It would also help create more affordable housing throughout the valley while ensuring our treasured public spaces can be preserved for generations to come.
What is not correct is that the money from these land sales would go to the federal government’s coffers. In fact, the opposite is true.
The 1998 Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act is a landmark bill that identified specific public land for future sale and created a special account ensuring all land sale revenues would come back to Nevada. In accordance with that law 5 percent of revenue from land transfers goes to the state of Nevada for general education purposes, 10 percent goes to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for needed water infrastructure and 85 percent supports conservation and environmental mitigation projects in Southern Nevada. This legislation has provided billions to Clark County and will continue to benefit generations of Southern Nevadans. Sen. Cortez Masto’s lands bill builds upon the act’s success.
So here’s the good news: All of the money generated from land made available for sale under Sen. Cortez Masto’s bill would be sent to the special account created by the 1998 law. Rather than going to an unaccountable federal government, the proceeds would continue to help kids in Vegas get a better education, bolster outdoor recreation and modernize Southern Nevada’s infrastructure.
I know how important it is that money generated from the sale of public land in Nevada stay in the hands of Nevadans, and so does the senator. That’s why she opposed a Republican effort last year to sell off 200,000 acres of land in Clark County and other areas of the country that would have sent those dollars directly to Washington.
Public land management in Nevada should benefit Nevadans. We should protect sacred cultural sites and beloved recreation spaces, responsibly transfer land for affordable housing when needed and ensure our state has the resources it needs to grow sustainably. I will continue working with Sen. Cortez Masto to advocate for legislation, such as the Clark County lands bill, that puts the needs of Nevadans first.
Paul Selberg writes from Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas High’s baseball team claimed a 3-2 home win over Coronado on Friday.
Las Vegas (9-13-1) next hosts Rancho at 10 a.m. Saturday. Coronado (13-14) hosts Chaparral at 3:30 p.m. Monday.
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LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada’s jobless rate is holding steady, but the state is still adding jobs.
A new report from DETR shows February’s unemployment rate unchanged at 5.3 percent, with the labor force growing by nearly 3,800 people.
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Nevada now has about 1.6 million nonfarm jobs, up 2.2 percent over the past year and 1,500 more jobs than in January.
“This month’s report shows a strengthening labor market,” said David Schmidt, Chief Economist. ”Compared to the report for January, the pace of job gains in the past year increased from 1.9% to 2.2%, building on what was already the fastest pace of job growth in the country. While the unemployment rate remained stable, the labor force participation rate rose to 63.7%, 1.7 percentage points higher than the national level.”
In Las Vegas, employment ticked up by 1,100 jobs in February, about 0.1 percent, and is up more than 25,000 jobs compared to last year.
Reno added 1,000 jobs on the month, while Carson City shed about 200 but is still slightly above where it was a year ago.
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