Planning commission approves two mobile food-vending village permits subject to staff conditions after weeks of negotiation

Oroville — The Oroville Planning Commission voted unanimously March 27 to approve two conditional use permits for mobile food–vending villages, subject to staff’s recommended project‑specific and ongoing conditions. The commission’s action clears the applications to move forward so long as applicants meet a detailed list of conditions before issuance of building permits and as ongoing operational requirements.

The use permits implement a recent amendment to Title 17 that allows up to three food‑truck vending villages in Oroville; staff recommended the permits be approved on the condition that applicants provide a site plan staff can analyze and that the projects meet a set of project‑specific and ongoing conditions intended to protect public health, safety and welfare.

Planning staff told the commission the city has no active food‑vending villages and that the ordinance is new. Staff said it could not determine whether the proposed layouts met the intent of Title 17 without clearer site plans and asked that approval be conditioned on submission of a site plan showing truck locations, dedicated truck parking, pedestrian circulation, restroom placement and accessible routes of travel.

‘‘We are recommending approval of this subject to the draft resolutions next step, which would be a site plan that we feel comfortable analyzing and working with,’’ a planning staff member said during the public hearing.

Applicant Scott Hubbard, who described himself as an operator of food‑truck businesses and a local gas station owner, said he…