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Montgomery councilors, police debate enforcement options as food trucks and parking-lot incidents rise
Summary
Council members and the police chief discussed growing complaints from brick-and-mortar businesses about food trucks and unpermitted activity in private parking lots, the limits of city enforcement, and an upcoming state law (House Bill 2844) that will change permitting statewide.
Council members and the Montgomery Police Department spent more than 30 minutes during a council work session discussing recurring complaints from local businesses about food trucks, tents and large gatherings in private parking lots and what the city can do about public-safety and licensing concerns.
Several council members described repeated complaints from shop owners — including at Eastdale Mall and near a Toys 'R' Us — about food trucks and vendors drawing crowds, producing noise and generating traffic in private parking lots. "I did ask them to do everything that was that was mentioned, put up signs," one council member said, adding that a business owner had asked for assurance that police would respond when vendors refused to leave. The speaker also said a woman had been shot in a parking-lot incident and that some storefronts had been damaged.
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