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Food-truck owner urges Oldsmar council to clarify permitting rules, fees
Summary
A local food-truck owner told the City Council that Oldsmar’s temporary vendor rules are vague and give the city manager unchecked power to set fees and grant permits, and asked council to revise code language and designate a city department to issue permits.
Steve Caldwell, a longtime Oldsmar resident and co-owner of Beam Bus Coffee, told the City Council on Feb. 4 that city rules on temporary vendors are vague, give too much discretion to the city manager and are deterring mobile small businesses.
Caldwell said the land-development code’s temporary-vendor provisions (referred to in the meeting as sections 14.4.0.5, 14.4.0.7 and 14.4.0.2) define “canteen, wagon, or truck” only as a temporary use and do not define mobile food trucks. He said that lack of definition could technically require permits for a wide range of truck-based businesses and that the code leaves permit fees and waiver authority to the city…
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