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Bowie business owner, food-truck operators say city moved trucks without consulting them
Summary
During public comment at the Bowie City Council meeting, a local business owner and food-truck operators said a recently passed ordinance requiring trucks to relocate to a designated food-truck area was based on incorrect information and implemented without consultation.
Dr. Pam Barlow, who operates Bowie Pet Clinic, told the Bowie City Council on April 22 that a recent city ordinance requiring food trucks to relocate to a designated food-truck area was based on false information and that she and the vendors were not consulted.
"If you do ordinances based on false information, then I don't think that ordinance can stand," Dr. Barlow said. She described allowing food trucks to use her parking lot and said she received no rent or subsidy from them: "I am not getting a dollar rent payment, subsidy, anything else for having the food trucks there." She also said her requests to meet with the…
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