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Food-trailer owner asks council to revise residential commercial-vehicle height restriction
Summary
A food-trailer operator asked council to amend the commercial-vehicle ordinance to allow certain food-trailer units to be parked on residential property; city manager agreed to research neighboring-city practices.
A Farmington Hills food-trailer operator asked the council on April 14 to amend the city's commercial-vehicle ordinance so that an enclosed food trailer used as the primary vehicle for a business could be parked on residential property.
The speaker, identified in the record as Krause, said the mobile-food trailer is an enclosed unit that resembles a standard enclosed car trailer and meets the ordinance's exceptions for axles and weight, but exceeds the city's height limit (the trailer is about 10.5 feet high). "I'm proposing a change to that ordinance to allow for those types of vehicles to be on resident property," Krause said.
The mayor asked the city manager to review how neighboring cities regulate food trailers; the city manager agreed to examine practices in nearby jurisdictions and report back. No ordinance change was made at the April 14 meeting.
Krause's comments were treated as public comment and entered into the record for the council's consideration.
