The Knox City Council continued discussions on the peddler ordinance during their meeting Tuesday.
The current peddler ordinance only allows food truck vendors one, eight-hour period in 60 days. The council discussed what they thought would be the best option moving forward. It was mentioned by several council members one, eight-hour period in 60 days is too strict. The idea of allowing food truck vendors to set up one day every two weeks with no time limit that day was agreed upon as the best approach to ease restrictions.
Mayor Dennis Estok mentioned the city needs protect their brick and mortar stores but believed allowing one day with no time limit every two weeks per vendor was a good start on amending the ordinance. He also informed the council on potentially offering monthly or even up to yearly permit fees for interested vendors. Currently, vendors pay for a one day permit.
The council took amending the ordinance under advisement. They plan to amend the ordinance at the next council meeting.
