Some owners want the city to reserve the metered spots just for food trucks during certain hours of the day. Mills said the city is considering that.
Ottawa Streat Gourmet, which is headed by the owner of Urban Pear, is having issues with parking his truck. There was some idea that the problem had to do with a sign not being up on time allowing him to bring his food truck to Queen Street, just west of O’Connor, but the reality is more complicated than that (as usual).
The pilot proposal would allow food trucks to stop in metered public parking places in specified areas downtown and sell food to pedestrians between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. They could operate between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. in any on-street parking areas where it is otherwise legal to park, with certain restrictions.
The trucks have argued that they’re a community-building group operating in the best interest of the city, even if many of them are based outside of it. If that’s the case, they should embrace the chance to reach out to more communities than just the downtown lunch crowd. And with a June 22 deadline to vote on the matter, we could see a drastically different summer of food if things don’t break a certain way.
My goal is to keep this moving forward which is why I’ll continue to defer (a vote)
When you prep up a bunch of fresh food and you put your employees on the truck, and you need a place to go (you) hope that you’re going to get a spot and then maybe get shut out of a spot, that can be tough
Portland, a longtime mobile eats conscientious objector, has finally joined the “food truck revolution,” but there are still plenty of regulatory issues that could make it difficult for trucks to succeed in the city, writes Meredith Goad in her Soup to Nuts column in the Press Herald.
Mobile food vendors will soon need a license to operate in Neenah.
City business owners, civic leaders and food vendors Wednesday began crafting an ordinance that would allow permits for food carts or trucks in Wausau.
Rochester City Council Tuesday night gave its approval to a new pilot program that will allow food truck vendors to set up shop at three downtown sites starting in June.
