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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - In the fallout of the Arthop contention betwixt the City of Fresno and section vendors, banned from "outdoor activity" for the Aug. 1 event, the city, and section businesses and vendors came unneurotic Wednesday to denote an all-new lawsuit to absorption connected section vendors, titled "Why Not Wednesdays."
"Whether a section nutrient truck, a unsocial trade vendor, oregon an aspiring young entrepreneur, there's a spot for you astatine this event," said Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer.
Dyer and others accidental a large purpose of this caller lawsuit is to not lone transportation connected the vendor spotlight that Arthop did, but besides to make a safe, sanitary, and family-oriented abstraction for everyone downtown.
"Whether you're selling apparel oregon selling food, it would let for up to 150 vendors connected a closed thoroughfare to participate," said Fresno City Councilmember Miguel Arias, who represents District 3. "The metropolis would supply escaped constabulary services, trash, closure of the street, and nationalist restrooms, astatine nary outgo to the participants, the organizers, oregon the vendors."
On July 19, Arias was the 1 who announced Arthop would beryllium restricted to indoor enactment only, for its Aug. 1 event.
It prohibited outdoor pop-up vending and nutrient trucks.
He says that volition proceed to beryllium the case, arsenic the caller city-sponsored lawsuit volition transportation a akin footprint to caller Arthop events. Instead, Fulton Street volition beryllium closed off, dissimilar Arthop, to let unfastened ft postulation from Fresno Street to Inyo Street successful Downtown Fresno.
Mayor Dyer says implicit clip helium volition besides grow FresnoHOP, the city's trolley service, to see Wednesdays, with a peculiar absorption connected "Why Not Wednesdays".
Some caller changes for vendors meanwhile, arsenic they volition beryllium required to motion up online for circumstantial spots and volition necessitate an progressive concern license, arsenic a Fresno County Department of Public Health certification volition beryllium required for nutrient vendors to motion up.
Sign-ups volition besides necessitate a interest for each event.
"The terms is $50 positive recognition paper fees for vendors, emblematic vendors, and $100 positive fees for a nutrient motortruck oregon ample booth," said Elliot Balch, CEO of the Downtown Fresno Partnership.
Balch says each dollar spent by vendors volition spell straight backmost into the event, for things specified arsenic hiring unrecorded philharmonic acts.
The downtown businesses and vendor organizations they worked with to travel up with the idea, accidental it wasn't a alteration they needfully wanted astatine archetypal but 1 they cognize volition wage off.
"Everyone lasting down maine took the clip to truly make this process unneurotic arsenic a radical and truly absorption connected the community's needs," said Albee Sanchez with Frida Cafe.
But not everyone agrees.
Two vendors showed up to protestation and told maine they believed they were near retired of the conversation, arsenic 1 said she wouldn't be the caller event.
"I person handcrafted items, I person archetypal artwork. I don't person a spot successful a assemblage and I don't person a spot connected these Wednesdays. I mislaid my assemblage and that's wherefore I'm warring truthful hard," said Crystal Rocha, a erstwhile Arthop vendor.
The archetypal Why Not Wednesdays lawsuit volition beryllium connected Sept. 18.
For further information, oregon if you're a vendor who wishes to motion up, visit https://www.downtownfresno.org/
