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Planning commission refers food‑truck permitting and fee options to codes and zoning
Summary
Commissioners debated licensing, insurance and fee options for food trucks and agreed the matter should be addressed through a Codes and Zoning process so the county can recoup sales tax and set enforceable permitting rules.
Planning commissioners spent an extended portion of their work meeting discussing how the county should regulate food trucks and transient vendors and directed the issue to Codes and Zoning for ordinance development, including options for a temporary permit, insurance requirements and exemptions for short‑term events and nonprofits.
Commissioners and staff said the Planning Commission itself lacks the enforcement authority necessary to collect sales tax or impose permit fines, so the item should be handled by Codes and Zoning and then, if enacted, as an ordinance enforceable by deputies. "For this body,…
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