Lexington, KY – Starting with Tuesday afternoon’s council work session and continuing at Thursday night’s council meeting, the issue of food trucks will be debated.
The council will be considering a pilot program brought forth by a Food Truck Work Group that consisted of members of council and ex-officio members from downtown organizations, the mayor’s office, downtown business and restaurant owners.
The program would allow a six-month period in which mobile food vendors that are already licensed and that are vending from carts or trucks “which can safely operate out of a street parking space or area” to operate from on-street parking spaces in specified zones.
The zones (pictured at the right) are:
• South Limestone between the intersections of Vine Street and Main Street;
• West Vine Street between the intersections of South Broadway and South Upper Avenue;
• East High Street between the intersections of South Martin Luther King Boulevard and South Limestone;
• Elm Tree Lane between the intersections of Corral Street and East 4th Street;
• and West High Street between the intersections of South Upper Avenue and South Mill Street.
Under the proposed ordinance, in those zones, trucks may only operate between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.
After 10 p.m., vendors can operate outside of the specified zones as long as they are in a legal parking space, not within 100 feet of the main entrance of a business during its operating hours – parking across the street from an open business is allowed – or within 100 feet of a residential zone.
