I don't really get why they wouldn't want food trucks to be near residential parks and such. I'm also curious if this would effectively ban residential area ice cream trucks.
My guess is wanting to avoid the downsides of parks turning into backdoor commercial food courts and possible maintenance annoyances as residential parks have trashcans filled far less frequently than disposable dish only restaurants. And ice cream trucks usually spend less time stopped I believe (it could vary by urbanization as well).
The Planning Commission had a working session last night where they discussed lots of these issues, including ice cream trucks (everyone was very concerned about accidentally banning ice cream trucks heh). I forget what the conclusion was, but our City Planer mentioned that ice cream trucks operate in a public right-of-way (the road) and aren't parked on private property to serve food. I think they're going to revise the ordinance for clarity, though, because an ice cream truck and a food truck serve different purposes, I'd argue.
Personally, I wouldn't mind banning ice-cream trucks. Where I used to live in queens, at about 8:30-9:00PM an ice-cream truck would drive down our street with ear piercingly loud music, and start our kids complaining that they want some after we'd just got them to settle down for the night.
I work at a large employer with 150 employees and no real cafeteria. So there a food truck makes sense.
They only do 1 hour at our gate. Quick money.
Plus fastfood is a 10 minute drive so a captive audience.
They just need to be reliable. Otherwise I pack a lunch.
So other use cases are weird to me. I can see festivals.
But the food trailer out front Lowes.
Who eats there? I rarely see customers waiting...
