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Two Connecticut towns approve food trucks with restrictions

June 19, 2017

The towns of Enfield and West Hartford, Connecticut have allowed food trucks to operate in their jurisdictions, according to The Hartford Business Journal. The trucks are allowed to operate on a restricted basis, partly in deference to brick-and-mortar restaurants.

West Hartford now allows trucks in the New Park Avenue industrial zone. The city wants to capitalize on the food truck craze, strengthen a less focal part of town and complement new businesses with the least disruption to restaurants.

The ordinance prohibits food trucks operating within 500 feet of a restaurant, allowing them on around 15 streets near New Park, as an accessory use within the parking area of an existing business in the industrial zone and within a licensed food truck park.

Enfield limits trucks to about 10 areas and town property, with no more than two trucks per site. Fees are levied for a health department license, a mobile food vendor license and daily vending permits. The fees are are less expensive for locally based trucks. As of late May, no trucks had yet applied for a permit.