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Food-truck owner says Rosenberg ordinance creates 'monopoly,' asks council to revise
Summary
A Rosenberg food-truck operator told the council that ordinance 2026-29 limits mobile vendors to a handful of locations and effectively grants exclusive access to one site, making permits impossible to obtain in practice. He provided a petition and asked council to review the ordinance and the permit process.
Bridal Lopez, a food-truck operator who does business in Rosenberg, told the city council the newly adopted ordinance 2026-29 has left many mobile vendors without legal locations and asked the council to revise the rules.
"What the council has created is a monopoly," Lopez said, asserting the ordinance confines vendors to storefronts of at least 10,000 square feet or a single new gas-station site (Cruisin'), and that code-enforcement staff could not produce permit paperwork when he tried to apply. "It is literally impossible for any other business to get that permit," he told the council and left a signed petition.
Lopez said the ordinance, adopted "on the 16th of last month," limits roughly 20–30 trucks to about 10 spaces at the designated site and creates safety and access concerns if many more trucks are forced into the same driveway. He asked the council to open the permit process to other businesses or gas stations and to make the required paperwork available at code enforcement.
Mayor responded that staff would follow up and invited Lopez to leave his contact information; the mayor asked staff to call him and review the petition. The council did not take formal action on the ordinance during the meeting; staff was asked to confer with the speaker and report back.
