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Nolensville adopts mobile food vending rules after months of edits; fees, seating and employee-restroom rules added
Summary
The Nolensville Board of Commissioners approved second reading of Ordinance 24-18 to create chapter 4 (mobile food vending) of the municipal code. The ordinance was amended to set fees, seating limits and employee restroom access; a proposed cap on repeat visits and a 100-foot parking setback were removed.
The Nolensville Board of Commissioners on May 1 adopted second reading of Ordinance 24‑18, establishing a chapter on mobile food vending in the Nolensville Municipal Code after a series of amendments that set permit fees, clarified operational limits and required written restroom access for employees during long shifts.
The ordinance, which passed unanimously, creates an annual food-vending permit and a temporary three‑day permit, restricts overnight visible parking on arterial corridors, sets a maximum of eight seats provided by a vendor, and requires a written agreement that allows vendor employees to use a permanent restroom facility within 150 feet when the vendor operates more than three hours.
The new rules are the result of several months of staff work, workshop discussion and revisions requested by commissioners and members of the public. Town staff proposed the permit structure and many of the operational clarifications; the commission voted to (1)…
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