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Palm Coast council pushes to ease rules for food trucks after vendors warn ordinance is too burdensome
Summary
City staff showed a draft ordinance to allow food-truck parks and accessory food-truck operations; vendors and council pressed to loosen site-plan, fee and parking requirements, add local-operator preference and expand allowed zoning to Industrial 1 and COM1–3. Staff will revise the draft for Planning Board review.
Palm Coast City Council members signaled support on Oct. 28 for loosening proposed rules that would govern where and how mobile food dispensing vehicles (food trucks) may operate, after owners and vendors said the draft ordinance would be too costly and restrictive for small businesses.
Michael Hansen, community development staff, presented a draft that would allow two types of MFDV operations: principal ‘‘food-truck parks’’ in COM2/COM3 zoning (minimum 20,000 square feet, up to 15 truck spaces, 30-by-20-foot pads and 10-foot fire separations) and ancillary/accessory operations on public parkland or on private parcels that meet site-plan standards. Hansen said the draft is intended to ensure compliance with Florida Statute 509.102, which preempts local governments from outright bans on food trucks, while adding safety, parking and sanitary requirements.
‘‘This ordinance is basically just builds upon that to allow for additional operation of food trucks within the city,’’ Hansen said, describing pad sizes, separation requirements and restroom/parking…
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