City Hall’s plan for transforming Market Square into a bustling food court hit a snag this year — lack of interest.
City Council is expected to consider a proposal in June put together by staff.
County officials to consider creation of vending zones that would allow more flexibility.
Food trucks will now be able to serve customers on local streets for up to two hours. They will not, however, be able to stay longer than the time allocated by the meter zone they’re parked in.
Food trucks in Arlington will have a whole two hours to sell their goodies now, as the county board unanimously approved doubling the previous one-hour parking limit Tuesday.
Arlington’s food trucks may have an easier time adhering to the law if the County Board adopts changes to an ordinance this weekend. The parking issues that have been plaguing food truck vendors and resulted in legal battles in recent months will come up at Saturday’s board meeting.
D.C.’s food truck industry is extremely profitable, though, and the trucks would probably do more business here than across the river. However, these restriction changes could certainly mean a large change in availability and accessibility to food trucks, as numerous businesses would likely shift to Virginia.
Arlington County officials are looking at new regulations that would allow food truck vendors to stay in one place twice as long as they currently can.
Bring the ingredients for the donuts to the site and fry them to order on the truck. They offer one donut flavor a day, ranging from apple cider to red velvet and blueberry.
Our goal is to make barbecue as exquisite as any other food-based hobby, like wine or craft beer
