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Food truck vendor seeks festival; council and staff say vendor rules will be reviewed
Summary
A local food-truck operator asked the council to support a downtown food-truck festival; staff said vendors can apply under existing event rules and that the city will restart a longer review of a dedicated vendor ordinance through the ordinance review committee.
Randy Lucas, a local food-truck owner, asked the Columbus City Common Council during the Feb. 4 public comment period to support plans for a downtown food-truck festival aimed at boosting foot traffic and economic activity.
Lucas said he has worked with local food-truck vendors and met with Community Development and other city staff about an event. He told the council that food-truck events draw people, diversity and economic activity and asked to work with city staff and council members to make a festival happen.
Council and staff responses indicated that food-truck operators may apply using the city's event and vendor application process; staff said they have pulled prior work on vendor regulations done in 2012'13 and plan to place a vendor-ordinance review on the ordinance review committee agenda. Council members said past attempts to change vending rules drew pushback from some downtown brick-and-mortar businesses and that any ordinance rewrite will likely be a deliberative, multi-stakeholder process similar to the recent noise ordinance review.
Staff noted that the city's existing event application and licensing sections will need review and that any dedicated vendor ordinance would be considered by an ordinance-review working group. Council members encouraged Lucas to continue working with staff on the event application while the ordinance-review process moves forward; no new action was taken at the meeting.
