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An ordinance amending Chapter 13.08 of the Metropolitan Code of Laws to authorize the Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure to establish, administer and enforce, and the Traffic and Parking Commission to regulate, a permitting program to regulate food, beverage, and merchandise vending from trucks or other motor vehicles within the public right-of-way.
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WHEREAS, in or around 2012, the Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure ("NDOT") implemented a mobile food vendor pilot permit program, wherein NDOT issued a temporary permit to mobile food vendors who wished to sell food and beverages from a licensed vehicle capable of movement, or from a licensed trailer pulled behind a motor vehicle, inside or outside of the right-of-way, for two specified zones, the downtown core and outside the downtown core; and,
WHEREAS, this pilot program is still in existence but is not codified; and,
WHEREAS, from observation of this pilot program, it appears that there exists an appetite for food trucks in Nashville, including within the public rights-of-way; and,
WHEREAS, it also appears that there are vendors who desire to operate and park trucks, or other motor vehicles, and sell merchandise other than food and beverages from said trucks or other motor vehicles, within the public rights-of-way; and,
WHEREAS, due to this increase of and desire for food trucks and other merchandise-vending trucks, it would be advisable to establish a permanent regulatory scheme to regulate the sale of food, beverages, and merchandise from trucks and other motor vehicles ("Truck Vending"), within Metro's public rights-of-way, so as to improve the coordination, safety, compliance, and convenience of Truck Vending for vendors and citizens alike; and,
WHEREAS, NDOT is authorized in the Metro Charter to administer and enforce permits and licenses for parking within the public right-of-way; and,
WHEREAS, the Traffic and Parking Commiss...
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