The New Raleigh blog has this take on that city's efforts to regulate food trucks:
The saga that has lasted for over a year continues to get worse and the City of Raleigh seems completely set on doing everything it can to make sure that food trucks operate nowhere near where civilization gathers on a regular basis.
The latest drama comes as the Food Trucks agenda went to the Law and Safety Committee on Tuesday, August 30th. The meeting was a heated debate between Council Members Mary Ann Baldwin, who tried to find a few compromises in the new guidelines, and John Odom and Eugene Weeks, who both fiercely opposed any form of compromise on the issue. Before the meeting, the new agenda was released (see it here - automatic download of PDF) with new regulations on food trucks, many of which added more limitations to the previous rules set forth in the earlier City Council meetings. ...
One of the new (and largest) regulations, comes in the form of what time food trucks would be able to operate in Raleigh. The new law states that food trucks would only be able to serve food until 1am, rather than the 3am time that is currently set for hot dog carts. ...
The second big issue that has popped up recently is the assignment of parking spaces for food trucks in Raleigh. For a food truck to serve food on private property, the business must apply for a zoning permit for the truck to be on their property. This permit takes about ten days ... Within the permit process, this private company must show that they have a specific parking space in mind for the food truck. This parking space MUST be paved and not dirt, gravel or grass (although gravel is a possibility in the future). After the permit is acquired, the company must then paint the space and designate it for the food truck. ...
Food trucks cannot put folding sign boards on the street to advertise their business. ...Read the full article
The saga that has lasted for over a year continues to get worse and the City of Raleigh seems completely set on doing everything it can to make sure that food trucks operate nowhere near where civilization gathers on a regular basis.
The latest drama comes as the Food Trucks agenda went to the Law and Safety Committee on Tuesday, August 30th. The meeting was a heated debate between Council Members Mary Ann Baldwin, who tried to find a few compromises in the new guidelines, and John Odom and Eugene Weeks, who both fiercely opposed any form of compromise on the issue. Before the meeting, the new agenda was released (see it here - automatic download of PDF) with new regulations on food trucks, many of which added more limitations to the previous rules set forth in the earlier City Council meetings. ...
One of the new (and largest) regulations, comes in the form of what time food trucks would be able to operate in Raleigh. The new law states that food trucks would only be able to serve food until 1am, rather than the 3am time that is currently set for hot dog carts. ...
The second big issue that has popped up recently is the assignment of parking spaces for food trucks in Raleigh. For a food truck to serve food on private property, the business must apply for a zoning permit for the truck to be on their property. This permit takes about ten days ... Within the permit process, this private company must show that they have a specific parking space in mind for the food truck. This parking space MUST be paved and not dirt, gravel or grass (although gravel is a possibility in the future). After the permit is acquired, the company must then paint the space and designate it for the food truck. ...
Food trucks cannot put folding sign boards on the street to advertise their business. ...Read the full article
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