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Council Weighs Extending Food-truck Hours and Adding Spacing Requirements
Summary
Staff proposed extending permitted operating hours for licensed food trucks by one hour (to 10 p.m.), increasing per-location allowed hours and adding a 100-foot spacing requirement between trucks and sidewalk vendors; vendors present supported more hours and council asked staff to return with formal ordinance language after outreach.
Paramount staff asked the City Council on Dec. 17 for direction on modest changes to the city's mobile food-vending rules including a one-hour extension to permitted operating windows and a 100-foot spacing rule between trucks and other vendors.
Planning Director John King said current windows are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on public roadways and noon to 9 p.m. on private property, with typical permitted shifts of four hours on the street and five on private…
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