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Council previews, and in some cases adopts, several ordinances on food trucks, billboards and warning-system activation
Summary
Council previewed an amendment to conform local mobile food-truck licensing with state permitting, reviewed a zoning amendment to allow privately owned billboards on city property (returned after Planning Commission review), and adopted an ordinance criminalizing unauthorized activation of the outdoor warning system with an emergency clause.
The City Council considered a package of changes to local ordinances ranging from mobile food-truck permitting to public-safety code.
Rachel Fields, senior civil litigation attorney filling in for the city attorney, previewed Ordinance 38-94 to amend section 7-12 of the code of ordinances so that local mobile food-truck permits will be issued upon presentation of a state permit; state-level permitting and inspection mechanisms remove some local compliance steps. Fields recommended placing the ordinance on the next meeting for adoption so the city code conforms to recent state legislative changes.
Fields also presented Ordinance 38-84, an amendment to a zoning appendix that would permit privately owned billboards on city-owned property. The council had previewed and previously voted on the ordinance but Planning Commission review was required because it amends zoning; Planning Commission reviewed the same language on Sept. 25 and voted in support, and the ordinance returned to the council for official adoption and publication.
Ordinance 38-88 was presented to create a new offense prohibiting any unauthorized person from activating or attempting to activate the outdoor warning system. Fields said the item had been previewed earlier with emergency management director Jamie Ott; council adopted the ordinance and approved the emergency clause in the same meeting.
Councilors asked procedural questions about the mobile food-truck changes and were told the city will accept a copy of the state permit and issue the local permit accordingly. No local enforcement steps that previously required city inspection will remain because the state now handles those functions.
The ordinances were placed for adoption (or adopted where specified) and roll calls were taken; the transcript does not record vote tallies in the public record excerpt provided.
