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Council holds first reading on food-truck rules to allow downtown and commercial vending

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Summary

The council heard a first reading of an ordinance to add mobile-vending (food-truck) permits to the city code. The proposed rules would allow food trucks in downtown and some commercial/industrial areas with time and spacing limits and require merchant and state food licenses.

City Engineer Justin Peterson presented a first reading of an ordinance amendment on July 7 proposing a new permitting framework for mobile vending and food trucks in Watertown.

Peterson said staff modeled the draft language on ordinances from other cities but simplified requirements for local conditions. Under the…

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