🚫 The Injustice: A Tale of Two Standards

While the Swap Meet pays rent, taxes, and strictly adheres to health codes, the City has allowed hundreds of unregulated vendors to flood the immediate perimeter.

• Unfair Playing Field: The City has turned a blind eye to the illegal occupation of sidewalks, allowing outside vendors to operate rent-free and undercut the legitimate, fee-paying merchants inside the market.

• Violation of State Law: The suit contends the City is explicitly ignoring SB 946, which mandates a 500-foot no-vending buffer zone around swap meets—a legal protection designed precisely to prevent this kind of economic cannibalization.

🚫 The Injustice: A Tale of Two Standards

While the Swap Meet pays rent, taxes, and strictly adheres to health codes, the City has allowed hundreds of unregulated vendors to flood the immediate perimeter.

• Unfair Playing Field: The City has turned a blind eye to the illegal occupation of sidewalks, allowing outside vendors to operate rent-free and undercut the legitimate, fee-paying merchants inside the market.

• Violation of State Law: The suit contends the City is explicitly ignoring SB 946, which mandates a 500-foot no-vending buffer zone around swap meets—a legal protection designed precisely to prevent this kind of economic cannibalization.