City of Peoria - File #: 15-093

• File #: 15-093
• Version: 2
• Name: Food Truck Second Reading
• Type: Action Item
• Status: Regular Business
• File created: 3/13/2015
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 4/14/2015
• Title: Communication from the City Manager with a Request to Approve an ORDINANCE Amending Chapter 18 of the Code of the City Of Peoria Pertaining to Licensing of MOBILE FOOD VEHICLES.
• Indexes: Goal 2 - Safe Peoria, Goal 4 - Grow Peoria, Grow employers and jobs.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/14/2015	2	City Council	substitute motion	Pass
4/14/2015	2	City Council	adopted as amended	Pass
4/14/2015	2	City Council	deferred	Pass
3/24/2015	1	City Council	received and filed	Pass

ACTION REQUESTED:
Title
Communication from the City Manager with a Request to Approve an ORDINANCE Amending Chapter 18 of the Code of the City Of Peoria Pertaining to Licensing of MOBILE FOOD VEHICLES.

Body
BACKGROUND:
In 2012, City staff worked to craft an ordinance that would allow food trucks to operate from the right-of-way. The effort was undertaken due to interest from potential entrepreneurs who wished to start food trucks. The ordinance was patterned on the existing food cart ordinances and provided for a number of regulations: parking in designated areas; fees; requirements for trash, clearances, etc.; and operating hours. The effort included two public meetings. On June 12, 2012, the proposed ordinance failed on a 5-6 vote.

On February 24, 2015 (Item 15-067), the City Council unanimously directed staff to prepare an ordinance to be introduced at the March 24, 2015 meeting that would allow food trucks to operate from the public right-of-way. The ordinance was introduced under first reading. From the Council discussion, staff investigated making the following changes to the ordinance:

* Limiting the number of food trucks operating downtown to 2 or 3.
* Changing the proposed downtown location to the 500 block of Hamilton.
* Strengthening the language regarding sales tax accountability.
* Establishing standards for aesthetics.
* Increasing distance from restaurants outside of downtown.
* Adjusting the fee for both downtown and outside of downtown.
* Adding a requirement for the provision of recycling containers.

The attached, revised ordinance (both a redline version and a clean version) makes changes in a number of areas:

Number of Downtown Licenses
Licenses for operation of food trucks from downtown right-of-way has been limited to three. Previously, staff had suggested that food trucks be folded into the 13 total licenses available for sidewalk vendors (13 total meaning that with 6 currently taken by carts there could...