At his street-side business outside Petco Park on Seventh Avenue and K Street, Imhotep Mustaqeem has developed a devoted clientele.
“Everyone misses him,” Judith Shiley, a regular, said.
When his game-day snack-shop table was nowhere to be found since about mid-July, Shiley worried.
“Everyone wondered where he went and what happened to him, ” she said as Mustaqeem stood on the corner without his snack table.
Mustaqeem says the city of San Diego has effectively shut down his business. The suit he filed against the city claims it has created arbitrary and broad vending laws. It also claims the city ordinance doesn’t follow sections of state law, which decriminalize sidewalk vending.
“I’m not a rogue vendor,” said Mustaqeem, who always had his sellers permit and business licenses front and center on his table.
But in July, that didn’t stop police from confiscating his snacks and an envelope with $1,200 he’d earned, according to the suit. It also notes Mustaqeem was cited four different times from …