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Washington D.C.'s burgeoning dining scene sports a healthy and vibrant food truck culture which rivals those of larger cities such as New York or Los Angeles.

The new system, which begins Monday, will allot assigned spaces to participating trucks for their exclusive use every weekday. They'll be able to park in the spaces for four hours.

Monday marked the launch of the District’s plan to bring order to the most fashionable (and chaotic) food truck locations, where a law of the jungle had prevailed.

The zones are one of the biggest changes to come from the regulations that passed this summer after more than four years of hearings, debates, and protests that often pitted brick-and-mortar restaurants against their mobile competition.

After years of parking where they choose, food truck operators in the District of Columbia are preparing to have their spaces assigned by lottery.

If the first week under the new regulations is a harbinger of the long-term impact of the rules, then I’m cautiously optimistic.

lot of trucks don’t get to leave on their own terms. They get pushed out or forced out and in the culinary school, they say, ‘ Change your job every three or four years’ because you’ll burn out