\n\n“Detroit’s city council introduced new rules that will allow food trucks to operate in more parts of the city beginning next spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“From an equity standpoint and from a food access standpoint, we believe food trucks should be able to operate in public spaces across the city,” city councilor Raquel Casta\u00f1eda-Lopez, who introduced the measure, told<\/a> the Detroit Free Press<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n “While words such as “fairness and harmony” and “equitably” make for a nice word salad<\/a>, they mask the true, protectionist spirit underlying the new ordinance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Food trucks must be 200 feet away from existing restaurants and 300 feet from entertainment and sports arena areas,” the Freep<\/em> report indicates, also noting that food trucks may no longer operate after 11 p.m. That’s progress?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe to Larson, whose nebulous, we kinda sorta like it<\/em> remarks aren’t a huge surprise, given that Downtown Detroit Partnership’s member list<\/a> includes a host of giant companies and traditional food-truck opponents\u2014including brick-and-mortar restaurateurs and the realty groups that rent space to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed, in discussions of expanding food truck access to other parts of Detroit\u2014or any city or town in America\u2014the devil’s in the details.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n