The Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed an update to the city’s sidewalk food cart ordinance on Thursday that will expand the locations where carts can operate and allow license holders to sell at up to three spots.
The revised ordinance is one of a series of steps the city is taking to address the proliferation of unlicensed food vendors in recent years — many of them immigrants who don’t have a permit to work legally in the U.S.
Some of the most visible street vendors were Ecuadorian immigrants selling fruit from highway medians. Others sold hot foods at local parks as they tried to dodge city enforcement…