Food Truck Setback: What Can Be Done?

Louisville Metro Councilman Jerry Miller of District 19 just offered to sponser the amendment to the ordinance if the Mayor is on board. One of his constituents wants to do a mobile food truck. I am starting to love free social networking sites more and more every day.

The good news just keeps on comin....

WOW Matt, it has been such a bonafide pleasure to see this unfold here. As a dedicated Hotbytes reader, thank you for sharing the nitty gritty. One of this forum's best threads, I think. You're awesome!

Louisville Metro Councilman Jerry Miller of District 19 just offered to sponser the amendment to the ordinance if the Mayor is on board. One of his constituents wants to do a mobile food truck. I am starting to love free social networking sites more and more every day.

The good news just keeps on comin....

You should contact your councilman to get him to cosponsor the ordinance! Things are certainly coming together fast, hope it continues.

Louisville Metro Councilman Jerry Miller of District 19 just offered to sponser the amendment to the ordinance if the Mayor is on board. One of his constituents wants to do a mobile food truck.

So we can change the ordinance when our friends will benefit. I'm glad it is happening, just angered it was probably spawned from the "Good Ol Boys" network.

Louisville Metro Councilman Jerry Miller of District 19 just offered to sponser the amendment to the ordinance if the Mayor is on board. One of his constituents wants to do a mobile food truck.

So we can change the ordinance when our friends will benefit. I'm glad it is happening, just angered it was probably spawned from the "Good Ol Boys" network.

Just sounds like "representation" to me. Councilpersons bring all kinds of amendments to the table for various reasons.

Louisville Metro Councilman Jerry Miller of District 19 just offered to sponser the amendment to the ordinance if the Mayor is on board. One of his constituents wants to do a mobile food truck.

So we can change the ordinance when our friends will benefit. I'm glad it is happening, just angered it was probably spawned from the "Good Ol Boys" network.

Just sounds like "representation" to me. Councilpersons bring all kinds of amendments to the table for various reasons.

Ditto on representation. Since mobile food trucks are an emerging trend for Louisville, and our antiquated codes don't support them, how else would Code get changed? It takes a person (or persons) willing to be vocal enough to get the attention of those people who can change things. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Ditto on representation. Since mobile food trucks are an emerging trend for Louisville, and our antiquated codes don't support them, how else would Code get changed? It takes a person (or persons) willing to be vocal enough to get the attention of those people who can change things. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.

There is another way...our representatives could actually be proactive and change the law before there is a need. Drive the change instead of being reactive.

Call me crazy....

But still, its good that there seems to be a willingness to change things.

There is another way...our representatives could actually be proactive and change the law before there is a need. Drive the change instead of being reactive.

Call me crazy....

But still, its good that there seems to be a willingness to change things.

In many cases they don't realize there's a need to change regulations unless somebody encounters a problem. That certainly appears the case here. Nobody had expressed any concerns about the old regulations until Matt wanted to start up his truck. There was no problem with festivals, chow wagons, etc. so no one recognized the need for change. You can only be proactive when you are able to see the need.

Good to see things working in the right direction. Rather it be "representation" or "good ol' boys club" it means more opportunities and that's always a good thing.

I have a friend that will be very interested in the outcome. She's been wanting to do a breakfast/dessert/coffee truck targeted at downtown business but all the red tape has swayed her to look into a different path for getting her desserts out there.

I have a friend that will be very interested in the outcome. She's been wanting to do a breakfast/dessert/coffee truck targeted at downtown business but all the red tape has swayed her to look into a different path for getting her desserts out there.

I wonder how many other people are in the same boat?

The regulations have been screwed up for years and have either kept places from opening or forced them to close. If everyone on this forum knew that, then the representatives surely had to. It has been such an issue, Marsha wrote a piece about it 4 months ago. I still find it amusing that things are finally moving along when a friend of a policy maker decides he/she wants to open a truck.

I'd prefer to think of it as a tipping point.

I still find it amusing that things are finally moving along when a friend of a policy maker decides he/she wants to open a truck.

Jusin, I might be missing something, but I do not recall Matt, the OP, stating that a friend of someone in power got the ball rolling. He stated, "Louisville Metro Councilman Jerry Miller of District 19 just offered to sponser the amendment to the ordinance if the Mayor is on board. One of his constituents wants to do a mobile food truck."

This is how local gov't works and a constituent is not necessarily a friend. Actually, constituents are concil members "bosses."

Not everything is back-room shady dealings!

DD

Jusin, I might be missing something, but I do not recall Matt, the OP, stating that a friend of someone in power got the ball rolling. He stated, "Louisville Metro Councilman Jerry Miller of District 19 just offered to sponser the amendment to the ordinance if the Mayor is on board. One of his constituents wants to do a mobile food truck."

This is how local gov't works and a constituent is not necessarily a friend. Actually, constituents are concil members "bosses."

Not everything is back-room shady dealings!

Maybe I read it wrong. I took it as a friend/co-worker/boss is actually going to open/run a food truck. Maybe he was using "do", meaning the constituent wanted to push the food truck policy change. I just thought that the change was just now happening because someone with power or connections to power had something to gain.

Nobody had expressed any concerns about the old regulations until Matt wanted to start up his truck.

Not true. As pointed out elsewhere, Marsha wrote an article 4 months ago. Also, those of us with more libertarian bents have been expressing concerns about regulations for years. Anyone who has ever started a small business has probably expressed some concerns, or at least, frustrations.

But really, my point is that with proper representatives, Louisville could have been leading the food truck wave instead of following - as usual.

“When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.” – Mark Twain