Food Trucks in Jax Beach

[fieldafm]

FINALLY, the time has come for a draft ordinance to be publicly vetted before introduction at City Council.  I urge you to email your thoughts (especially about the fact that private property owners would need to apply for a permit, regardless if their zoning allows for the use of food sales/service... or the distance restriction from existing restaurants) to planning@jaxbchfl.net before April 19th.

http://www.jacksonvillebeach.org/sites/default/files/documents/Plan_Dev/mobile_food_vendors1.pdf

This is your chance Jax Beach.  Neptune Beach is next. 

[fieldafm]

This is not insignificant. 

Neptune Beach and Atlantic Beach have their own bills that will be introduced once Jax Beach goes through the process.  Even some Jax Beach restaurant owners are speaking on food trucks' behalf.

Please email  planning@jaxbchfl.net before April 19th and ask that they
A)consider allowing food trucks to set up on vacant lots (food trucks quickly and efficiently activate unused spaces)

B) not require food trucks to be stored off site (the ordinance as written would not allow a food truck to stay on the same lot it served from overnight, meaning if you owned a commercial lot and a food truck, you would have to take your food truck off that very same lot overnight if you used your OWN property to serve from that day).  Earlier this year the State of Florida passed a law the food trucks no longer require a commissary if they can provide their own fresh water daily, this eliminates the need for food trucks to leave the site of service unecessarily.

C) requiring private property owners to apply for a permit to host a food truck regardless if their underlying zoning already allows for the use of the sale/service of food by right  (this creates an unnecessary administrattive and financial burden for commercial property owners who have already been granted that right by Jax Beach's comp plan).

[Tacachale]

Mine's sent. Top work Mike.