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Osage Beach aldermen remove 200-foot restriction on food trucks in first reading; debate centers on fairness and sales-tax compliance
Summary
The Board of Aldermen voted to approve first reading of an amendment to the city’s peddlers and solicitors code removing a 200-foot spacing requirement for food trucks. Aldermen debated the provision’s fairness to brick-and-mortar businesses and persistent challenges collecting sales tax from transient vendors.
Aldermen voted Thursday to approve first reading of an amendment to Chapter 610 of the city code that removes a distance-based restriction for food trucks. The bill (25-81) would change the city’s rules for mobile food vendors and was debated at length before a roll-call vote.
Alderman Kevin Rucker argued the ordinance provision as written discriminated against mobile vendors. "We are discriminating, in my opinion, against a class of business that's in our town or wants to be in our town because we are putting regulations against them that we don't put against any other business," Rucker said. Alderman Oliver Osteen said he concurred, adding he had “always been opposed to the distance…
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