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Food Systems | food trucks

The city’s zoning regulations supplemental use standards includes a section on mobile food vending (§5.406) and covers required permits, hours of operation, operational requirements, mobile vendor food courts, and additional requirements based on proximity to residential housing. 

Home Occupations

The city’s zoning code permits home occupations by right subject to use-specific standards (Appendix A §4.603). Home occupations must comply with location and space, employee, traffic, parking, dwelling modification, sign, sales and display, storage, advertising, equipment, nuisance, hours of operation, and specific use standards (Appendix A §5.116).

The city allows up to five additional employees with a discretionary use permit subject to use-specific standards (Appendix A §5.116.a.1.b). In reviewing the application for a discretionary use permit, the city council may seek the consent of “the majority of property owners of the one or two-family residential property along with both sides of the block face” (Appendix A §5.116.a.1.b.6).

Tree Preservation and the Urban Forest 

The city’s zoning code includes urban forestry standards that establish tree preservation, planting, and maintenance requirements for public and private property (§6.302). These standards address tree protections and maintenance, construction methods, land-use based tree planting requirements to achieve a canopy coverage goal, warranties and replacements, urban forestry plans and permits, urban forestry development agreements, appeals, penalties, and enforcement.