[OMS_MANAGERS] Food Trucks/Transient Vendors

[Jonathan Stone]

Oregon City is possibly approaching this topic as well. Any survey
information or best practices would be greatly appreciated. Our primary
areas of concern are:

   1. Fair fees keeping in mind restaurants pay for permanent locations
   2. Loss of on street parking (its a longer battle to allow on private
   property due to zoning restrictions)
   3. Demonstrating that food carts are a net positive and that brick and
   mortar restaurants will actually fair better with a well designed food cart
   program.



On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Alma Flores <aflores at beavertonoregon.gov>wrote:

>  Katherine,
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> The city of Beaverton is exploring changing its regulations to accommodate
> food carts (longer hours, overnight, in pods).  Take a look at our website--
> www.beavertonoregon.gov/foodcarts
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> So far the response has been extremely positive.  If you like, we could
> send you the results thus far to the survey (ends April 14) to get a sense
> for the responses from customers, business owners, and property owners.
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> Best,
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> Alma
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> *Alma Flores*
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> Beaverton OR 97076
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> *From:* OMS_MANAGERS [mailto:
> oms_managers-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] *On Behalf Of *Katherine
> Hayes
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:55 PM
> *To:* oms_managers at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> *Subject:* [OMS_MANAGERS] Food Trucks/Transient Vendors
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> Good Afternoon!
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> At the last City Council meeting in Coos Bay, there was a public forum and
> discussion of allowing food trucks/transient businesses in the the City.
> Currently, there is a BBQ food truck that parks in the Visitor Center
> parking lot and there was some concern about it taking  away parking spaces
> from visitors. The city administration proposed moving the vendors to a
> different, city owned lot. There was also some concern about how to
> properly and fairly license the vendors. It looks like the current
> transient business license from the city is about $75; established
> restaurants voiced concerns that these businesses were paying such low fees
> and utilizing public property as compared to the established restaurants
> who are subject to higher business license fees and property taxes.
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> Does anyone have food trucks or transient vendors that set up in their
> downtowns? How have they been received by the community and businesses? How
> are they regulated (or are they regulated)?
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> Thanks,
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> Katherine
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> [image: OldLogo2]*Katherine Hayes*
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> Main Street Manager
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> Coos Bay Downtown Association
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> www.coosbaydowntown.org <http://www.downtowncoosbay.org>
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Jonathan Stone
*Executive Director*

Main Street Oregon City Inc.
816 Main Street
Oregon City, OR 97045

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