My goal is to keep this moving forward which is why I’ll continue to defer (a vote)
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Pop-up dinners, food truck rallies and a Sunday Purloo brunch – not to mention the Jazz Fest food booths — top this May Day roundup of dining events.
ayor Mitch Landrieu has vetoed an ordinance allowing for an expansion of food trucks in the city, telling City Council members that he and his staff have concerns about the legality of the ordinance.
The ordinance will also open up parts of the Biomedical District, the Treme, and the CBD as fair game for food truck fare. However, the revision includes the areas in the French Quarter and Frenchmen Street, and the CBD between Poydras St. and Howard Ave. in the no-food-truck zone.
The New Orleans City Council passed new rules for food trucks Thursday.
This has been the concern not just of (the Louisiana Restaurant Association). This came from my public health people — not from the city, but from my access to a whole arena of public health people,” said Clarkson, adding that she has received public health guidance from “people who have been engaged in public health my whole life.
A key portion of debate focused on customer access to restrooms, with council members finally settling on amendments that would require vendors seek written permission from the nearest business with a restroom available for their customers.
After months of discussion, the New Orleans City Council voted Thursday to approve a new set of laws that govern food trucks and a yearlong pilot program that will allow more of them to operate in the city.
Opponents of the changes have claimed that restaurants are not only ones who will be affected by seeing a loss on their bottom line to the mobile vendors.
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This has been going on for almost a year. We’re over nine months into this discussion. My hope is that we go ahead and move forward, and that we vote on it up or down—and the amendments are voted on up or down on the 18th. I feel good about it. I feel like there are very few people who are opposed to food trucks at all, very, very few.
