Coffee cart brews up downtown food truck expansion proposal

Coffee cart brews up downtown food truck expansion proposal

A coffee cart unwittingly operating illegally in the parking lot of a downtown business sparked a movement to craft a zoning text amendment to permit mobile food and beverage vendors to peddle their wares in the Downtown Bayfront zone district.Food trucks are permitted in every other commercial zone district in the city but DTB, providing they operate on private property. Setting up in public spaces requires a city-issued permit. When the owners…