Michael Blake: “We need to lift the caps [on street vending permits].”

“This was about actually meeting the hard government moment of managing a bureaucracy with 300,000 employees, with multiple agencies. As part of managing that bureaucracy, would you lift the caps? Yes. Thank you very much, Assemblymember. So, yes, We need to lift the caps [on street vending permits]. but we want to combine on both of these pieces, the attacks that are happening in street vendors and the delays that are happening in terms of permitting is because …” (25:30–25:32)

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