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Nolensville postpones second reading of mobile food-vendor ordinance after public comment; staff to seek zoning text amendment
Summary
The Board of Commissioners unanimously postponed second reading of an ordinance to adopt a mobile food vending chapter in the Nolensville Municipal Code, after staff recommended coordinating a zoning text amendment and members heard several public comments in support of a popular mobile vendor, the Pop Stop.
NOLENSVILLE, Tenn. — The Nolensville Board of Commissioners on Feb. 6 unanimously postponed the second reading of Ordinance 20418, which would add a chapter on mobile food vending to Title 9 of the Nolensville Municipal Code, at the request of town staff and after several residents urged changes to protect a local vendor known as the Pop Stop.
Assistant Town Manager Chuck Downhill told the board the ordinance as written and the town’s zoning ordinance contain conflicts and “deficiencies” that need to be reconciled. “The text amendment would basically remove the reference to the principal use for mobile vending and also add a definition to basically refer a person that might be reviewing the zoning ordinance over to the municipal code where all of the regulatory provisions will reside,” Downhill said.
The recommendation from staff, supported by legal counsel, was to…
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