By Patrick Sherry
The Lantana Town Council says the way food trucks operate has changed, so they need stricter rules.
“Food trucks were not the thing that they are now, so we need to get a handle on what’s allowed [and] what’s not allowed,” Mayor Karen Lythgoe said at the council’s March 9 meeting.
The council passed an ordinance with slight changes on its second reading that restricts food trucks in all zoning districts in the town. At three previous workshops, the council discussed implementing more regulations for these types of vendors to protect brick-and-mortar businesses.
The new ordinance prohibits food trucks on commercial or industrial properties, but owners can still have non-food roadside vendors on site for no more than eight hours a day.
Food trucks would only be allowed during town-sponsored events designated by the town manager.
Residential communities and private property owners can hire food truck services for community events for one day every quarter.
“This is a living document,” Lythgoe said. “If we find we have restricted it too much or not enough, we will come back and do it, but we’re trying to bring things up to this day and age.”
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