{"id":35265,"date":"2020-07-28T13:12:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=35265"},"modified":"2020-07-28T13:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:15:05","slug":"city-council-approves-food-truck-pilot-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/city-council-approves-food-truck-pilot-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown City Council Approves Mobile Food Vendor Pilot Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JAMESTOWN – The Jamestown City Council<\/strong> has voted to give food trucks and other mobile food vendors more flexibility in operating within the city, but the vote wasn’t unanimous.<\/p>\n

The council held its monthly voting session Monday night video video conference and approved a Mobile Food Vendor<\/strong> pilot program for the operation of food trucks by a vote of 7 to 2.<\/p>\n

The pilot program will allow food trucks to operate in the city if they are set up at least 125 feet away from an existing brick-and-mortar restaurant. However, if the vendor is also located in Jamestown, they would be allowed to set up immediately outside of their base of operation without having to abide by the 125 ft distancing mandate. All mobile food operations would have to pay for a license to operate ($150 for Jamestown-based vendors and $300 for out-of-city vendors) and also have to follow health and safety guidelines.\u00a0 Once a permit is granted, they would be allowed to operate between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.\u00a0 They could also operate past 8 p.m. if part of a special event application or if granted a variance from the city.<\/p>\n