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“It’s not just absolutely delicious, it’s the best thing ever for us because of our location. When we only have 25 minutes to eat, having an option that comes to us is amazing,” said Ragan Knuckles, school counselor.

Pronto Taco will travel to Lexington-Richland Five’s high schools during the school year. Students can purchase lunch for a few dollars, and money will go back to student nutrition initiatives like school gardens.

Food Truck Friday returns to the Herald-Leader from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 12.

Food Truck Friday returns to the Herald-Leader, 100 Midland Avenue, on Friday. Members of the Bluegrass Food Trucks Association will donate a portion of the proceeds from sales to United Way of the Bluegrass.

he Urban County Council has unanimously approved a six-month pilot project allowing food trucks to set up in public street parking spaces.

Food truck vendors say new restrictions to the city’s proposed Food Truck Pilot Program being considered by the Lexington Parking Authority tomorrow would take some of the most profitable areas zoned for food trucks off the table.

The regulation changes stem from the Parking Authority's efforts to clarify its role in regulating food trucks that park in metered parking zones. For the past two weeks, the Parking Authority has been researching data on the occupancy rate of downtown parking spaces. That process delayed the Urban County Council's final reading on a proposed six-month pilot project for food trucks on downtown streets.

A couple of 100 people gathered around at the Massachusetts Avenue and Woburn Street fairgrounds food trucks from around the area gathered for Lexington’s 2013 Food Truck Festival.

Lexington’s pilot food truck program may have cleared first reading at the Urban County Council, but a host of details including parking time limits and fines remain to be finalized by the city’s parking authority.

The parking authority discussed setting the maximum time in a metered space at four hours per day, per zone. Food vendors would be required to call the parking authority to say where their trucks would be set up that day. Food trucks could occupy no more than 50 percent of the metered spaces.