MIAMI -- If you stand in the exact same spot in Park West and look up and over you can see the lights of the Magic City with all of its lights. But if you look up, you're surrounded by garbage.

Amarish Mena comes to Park West two nights a week and hands out food to the homeless. Her mom cooks pounds the pounds of pasta that Mena distributes.

“It feels good because you see they need," Mena told Local 10’s Jen Herrera. "There are days they come and say 'I’ve been waiting for you.'”

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“They’ll just pull over to the side and have stuff for people to eat," Terence Hanshaw, who is homeless, told Herrera.

Mena also provides plates and forks with the meal, both of which end up on the ground after the food has been eaten.

No one is around to clean up the mess left behind.

That's why Miami’s City Commission is considering an ordinance to make it illegal for just anyone to feed the homeless in Park West. Certain criteria would have to be met.

“We need to make sure that they have gone through the health department and are serving healthy food in a sanitary manner," said James Villacorta of Miami’s Community Redevelopment Agency.

But some say if the food is taken away, it would be devastating, because the homeless depend on the daily impromptu feedings.

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