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Council approves two final plats and amends zoning to explicitly allow mobile food trailers
Summary
Gulfport city council approved final plats for Gulfport Promenade North and Sahara Gulf Villas and approved a zoning amendment to include food trailers under mobile food vendor rules, subject to health-department approval.
The Gulfport City Council approved several land-use items, including final plats and a zoning amendment that explicitly adds food trailers to the definition of mobile food vendors.
Council approved a final plat for right-of-way easement dedication at Gulfport Promenade North (Ward 5) and another final plat for Sahara Gulf Villas (Ward 2). Both motions carried unanimously as recorded in the meeting transcript.
Separately, the council approved a planning commission recommendation to amend the zoning ordinance to include trailers in the category for mobile food vendors. A council member described the change as correcting an oversight and noted that vendors still must meet health-department requirements. “This is adding, food trailers to food trucks,” a council member said during the discussion.
The zoning change was framed as aligning the ordinance with the original intent to allow mobile food operations in compliance with health and safety rules. The council recorded unanimous approval on the zoning amendment. The transcript does not provide further detail on bonding, fees or permit timelines for the amended category; the council and staff referenced health department approval as a threshold for mobile vendors.
