(A) No mobile food vendor shall operate a mobile food vending unit or food stand within or upon the public right-of-way without a mobile food vendor license pursuant to this chapter.
(B) No mobile food vending unit or food stand shall operate in public right-of-way within 100 feet from the entrance of a restaurant measured as a 100 foot buffer of a point, located at the center of the primary entrance of a restaurant between 6:30 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. This City Administrator, in his/her sole discretion, may grant an exception to this requirement upon written request submitted by the mobile food vendor. The exception or waiver granted by the City Administrator shall be in writing and shall contain the effective dates, the amended distance restriction (if not waived entirely), and any other information he or she deems necessary to clearly state the scope and conditions of the waiver or exception granted.
(C) Parking space or spaces shall be considered in conformance with this chapter for the full license term based on the existing restaurant locations at the time of application.
(D) Neither food stands nor food carts shall locate within five feet of sidewalk ramps.
(E) No food truck shall locate upon a sidewalk.
(F) No food truck shall park within 35 feet of a stop sign in the direction of approach and shall maintain distances from fire hydrants as required by law.
(G) All sales activities and the transfer of food and beverages to the customer shall occur only on the sidewalk side of the mobile vending unit.
(H) No food truck shall operate in angled parking spaces unless approved by the city.
(I) No mobile food vendor shall set up or maintain the use of any table, chair, crate, carton, rack or any other device placed within the public right-of-way, to market or provide a seating and/or eating area for the mobile food vending operation. This shall include providing tables, chairs or other furniture within the public right-of-way.
(K) Not more than one sandwich board type sign (also known as A frame sign), no larger than six square feet is permitted and shall be placed only on the sidewalk within five feet of where the mobile food vending unit or food stand is located.
(L) Food trucks operating in parking spaces shall also be subject to the following:
(1) A food truck shall occupy no more than one parking space at any given time unless said food truck cannot park entirely within one parking space; in this instance a food truck shall occupy no more than two parking spaces. Employee vehicles and any other vehicles associated with the food truck or the mobile food vending operation shall be legally parked in a parking ramp or off-street parking lot.
(2) Parking spaces reserved by a mobile food vendor may be rendered temporarily or permanently unavailable without notice to the licensee for purposes of road construction, special events, and/or other circumstances requiring the use of the area where the parking space is located.
(M) Food trucks engaging in intermittent sales in the public right-of-way shall also be subject to the following:
(1) Mobile food vending units shall not travel faster than 5 m.p.h. while playing music.
(2) Sales are restricted to pedestrians and only at such a time when the food truck has come to a complete stop and is legally parked.
(3) No loudspeaker or other sound system which may disturb the peace in the area is permitted. Music from the food truck is permitted to draw attention to the sales operation, but shall not be of a magnitude to create a disturbance in the surrounding area.
(4) A sign displaying the name of the company and telephone number shall be affixed to the vehicle and be no smaller than one square foot.
(Ord. 2613, passed 5-14-2019)