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Osage Beach aldermen reject ordinance that would remove food‑truck distance restriction
Summary
After a lengthy debate over fees, fairness to brick‑and‑mortar restaurants and enforcement, the Osage Beach Board of Aldermen voted down Bill 25‑81, which would have removed a proximity/distance restriction for food trucks and clarified that food trucks remain a class of peddlers.
The Osage Beach Board of Aldermen voted down a proposed ordinance that would remove a distance restriction on food trucks and confirm their treatment as a subclass of peddlers.
The measure, identified as Bill 25‑81 during the board’s second reading, prompted more than an hour of discussion on whether the city should keep a proximity rule (previously recommended at 200 feet by the Citizens Advisory Committee), whether food trucks should be carved out from other peddlers, and how the city could enforce sales‑tax collection by itinerant vendors.
City Attorney Cole Bradbury summarized the change as narrowing…
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