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Council signals move to lift food‑truck permit cap, seeks zoning and hours rules to limit concentration
Summary
After public testimony from vendors and residents, Lodi staff were directed to draft amendments to vendor-permit rules that would remove the city’s numerical cap on permitted private‑property vendors while adding location, hours and zoning limits (e.g., downtown mixed‑use exclusions) and potential pilot safeguards.
City staff told the council on April 15 that Lodi’s municipal code currently limits vendor permits to one permitted vendor per 2,800 residents (approximately 25 permits) and that the cap has left a wait list of about 10 vendors. Johnny Andrews, senior community improvement officer, said the staff’s enforcement workload is growing and that the cap may be driving unpermitted vending.
Several vendors and residents urged the council to lift or increase the cap. Amomar Ali, a vendor on the waiting list, said he wants to operate halal food trucks for Lodi’s Muslim community but cannot because of the cap. “We want…
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