Effect of regulations on real small business

[NCTexan]

News & Observer:

Chapel Hill's new food truck rules attract no takers

 

CHAPEL HILL -- Six months after Chapel Hill let food trucks in, they still haven’t come.

The town has received zero permit applications from food truck owners since the Town Council created a new set of rules for them in late January.

Food truck vendors say the high fees and permitting costs are the main reason they’ve stayed away, but the town also has tight restrictions on where trucks can park, making it even harder to do business..

 

"The biggest challenge we have faced is really not understanding the economic business model of food trucks,” he said.

 

Chapel Hill’s food truck fees are the most expensive in the Triangle, totaling $886 in permits and license fees for the vendor and the property owner who hosts the truck.

 

The town’s current rules came in the midst of an ongoing campaign to make over the town’s business image, from a place of over-regulation to one of innovation and inclusiveness.

 

The food truck ordinance does little to enforce the new image, food truck supporters say.

 

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Chapel hill is a bastion of liberal politics.... as well as social and intellectual elitism. It also is a perfect type of this administration and the current DEM leadership.

 

They just don't get it.

[pollyannaish]

These days some of the best food in the world comes from trucks. It's Chapel Hills loss.