Tag: Food Truck Policies

The city’s Community Services Department staff has developed a proposed set of regulations, using the National League of Cities’ regulations on food trucks as a guide, to establish an ordinance food truck vendors can operate by.

McAuliffe (D) signed a bill sponsored by state Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Fairfax) and supported by the food truck operators association.

The restaurateurs who push for restrictions on food trucks and other mobile food vendors frequently do so not to protect the public’s health and safety but their own bottom lines.

The council approved the license ordinance with revisions May 4 and its sister ordinance, which contains zoning guidelines for food trucks.

After eight months of public hearings and debating the pros and cons of food trucks, the city of Alexandria drafted a proposal to regulate them.

Pensacola is considering a law proposed by Council Member Charles Bare that would require food trucks to get a permit to operate downtown for city sponsored or cosponsored events, among other circumstances.

The cost of getting a permit, not enough places to park trucks and confusing guidelines from some cities are some of the reasons food trucks haven’t raised their profile in Riverside County.

Toronto city council voted 43-1 on Tuesday to ease the rules around food truck permits, allowing them to operate 30 metres from an open and operating restaurant.

The Richardson City Council will meet Monday to consider a special permit for a food truck park.

At the meeting, food truck operator Zane Caplansky told the committee that the restrictions were a big reason that the city only saw 17 operators take up on the new licenses. They were simply too restrictive, he said.