Mayor's Office would charge for the use of public space to informal vendors and restaurants in Bogotá

During a government council, the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, raised the possibility of charging for public space both for informal vendors and for establishments that operate in the open. However, this charge would be given until the end of 2021.

“That they take advantage of the public space to the extent that their private space has limited capacity and they cannot break even for their business. This year it is free for that reason, but at the end of next year everyone is paying, whoever wants to park pays, whoever wants to sell on the street pays, whoever wants to have a stall on the street pays," the president said.

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According to the Mayor, this will allow "improving security, we signal people, we improve things, because otherwise it is an infinite deterioration (...) economic pressure has caused many people to sell, I committed myself since the campaign to what we did a district forum, we agreed on the rules to organize the different organizations.

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She also added: “we are going to take care of organizing the space, whoever wants to be there has to organize to comply with those rules that we put in that space. We are going to have to use different spaces, we are going to have to take turns for schedules.”

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“Just as the one who is going to park is going to pay, because the one who wants to use the platform in a year is also going to pay and we started to organize ourselves, so that they know that we are going to move in that direction and I invite them, but the best security is the organization," López revealed.