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| City studies taco trucks |
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| Written by Staff report | |
| Wednesday, 12 September 2007 | |
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At a glance
Patterson’s planning commission will debate what should be done with taco trucks in the city when it has its regular meeting Thursday. The commission will not take any action that night. Instead, commissioners will discuss a report from the city community development department about mobile food vendors and accept public comment on the issue. City officials have been taking a close look at the rules regulating taco trucks since June, when Councilman Sam Cuellar tried to limit the number of trucks that could operate in one area. Cuellar specifically cited four trucks that sell food in a fenced area at M and First streets, saying he wanted to limit the trucks to three. Since that time, another truck has opened in the same area, offering fruit salads, nachos and smoothies, among other items. Nobody else on the council supported Cuellar, but his comments led the planning commission to review the city’s mobile food vendor ordinances. The report from the community development department is based on meetings with city staff and mobile food vendors. It looks at possibly restricting hours of operation, limiting how many vendors can be in one area, changing where vendors can locate, limiting the total number of vendors citywide and making the vendors move nightly. In addition to the taco trucks at M and First streets, there is a truck by Yancey Lumber on South First Street. The report states the trucks serve about 1,400 customers weekly. City ordinances allow taco trucks only in industrial zones, all of which are east of Highway 33. When the commission first reviewed the rules in July, taco truck supporters and opponents were out in full force, as was a television news crew. In other commission matters…
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