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Council workshop reviews options after state law limits local food-truck rules
Summary
At an April 21 workshop the Burroughs City Council discussed how HB 2844, effective July 1, will transfer permitting to the state and considered two local ordinance options: retain zoning buffers and site approvals (option A) or remove special local zoning (option B). Council asked staff to preserve event exemptions and consider a compliance certificate approach.
Burroughs council members and staff spent much of their April 21 workshop weighing how to respond after the state enacted HB 2844, which council members said will shift licensing of mobile food operations to the state and narrow local authority.
A council member said the law "all but strips our ability to regulate food trucks," and emphasized that July 1 is the effective date for the change. City attorney Mark outlined two draft local ordinances: option A would keep the city’s prior zoning-based restrictions (limiting mobile units to certain commercial zones, retaining distance buffers from residences and restaurants and requiring…
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