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Summit County Council To Study Food Truck Issue

The Summit County council this Wednesday had their first conversation about amending the Basin Code to allow mobile food trucks. After that, says council member Chris Robinson, they needed further information about the topic.

The council continued the topic and didn’t make a decision about allowing food trucks and food courts.

Robinson told KPCW they had several concerns.

“There was the concern about the potential unfair competition of food trucks to the established restaurants that have to pay, and the collection of sales taxes and things. The other one was asked which zones in which they can operate. whether its just the commercial and town center zones or whether they could cut up on private property in a residential zone.” Robinson explained, “We just decided that we needed more study to it. Right now, state law gives a lot more liberal opportunities for food trucks and so anything we do will be more regulation than there is now. We thought we ought to get it right rather than rushing this though.”

We asked him if the food trucks should be allowed in residential areas.

“If you had a construction job site and you had food trucks coming to feed workers at the noon hour or breakfast hour or something and it were a finite duration during the course of construction maybe that’s one thing.” Robinson continued, “On the other hand, the example that Doug Clyde gave is, what if you had a vacant residential lot that was in a subdivision or a neighborhood and it’s private property, so it meets requirements should they set up on that as long as they weren’t there for more than twelve hours a day. Then do they just pull of the private property and park on the public street to meet that standard. Like too many things they can be gamed. We have to try and anticipate how it may be gamed and then try to mitigate for it.”

Known for getting all the facts right, as well as his distinctive sign-off, Rick covered Summit County meetings and issues for 35 years on KPCW. He now heads the Friday Film Review team.
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