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Council interprets food-truck setback as 150 feet from primary entrance; will revisit ordinance language
Summary
Facing a pending mobile food-unit application and business complaints, the committee agreed to interpret the city’s current setback requirement as 150 feet from a restaurant’s primary entrance (door) for the pending application and asked staff to draft clearer ordinance language for council review.
The Isanti City Committee debated complaints that mobile food units (food trucks) are drawing customers from established brick-and-mortar restaurants and discussed how the city’s ordinance measures distance from food establishments. Staff read the ordinance language aloud: mobile food units are “prohibited from vending activities within a 50 feet of a food service building,” and council members raised questions about how that distance should be calculated…
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