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Tigard food pod developers ask council to remove emergency clause, citing costs and grandfathering
Summary
Two Tigard business owners urged the council during public comment to rescind an emergency rule change to food-cart regulations, saying recent changes make their planned food pod financially infeasible and that they should be grandfathered under prior rules.
George Miller, a property owner in Tigard, and Jenny Lopez, a longtime Tigard resident and small-business owner, told the City Council during public comment that an emergency change to local food-cart rules threatens a planned indoor food-pod and tap-house at Hudson Plaza.
Miller said he and Lopez bought Hudson Plaza in late 2021 and have spent months preparing a food-pod site at the corner of Walnut and Pacific Highway. He said the city’s planning staff interpreted recent rule changes differently than the owners expected and that compliance under the new rules would be “financially…
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