February 2010
5 posts
Email Paul Koretz at paul.koretz@lacity.org
The quote in question is - “A lot of businesses in stationary, permitted locations feel it’s unfair competition, and I tend to agree with them,” Koretz said. “There have been problems with these trucks popping up in front of businesses and people’s homes. They’re less of a nuisance in one lot, but I’m not thrilled with that either. I think they work well at construction sites where it’s difficult...
Letters to Councilman Koretz
Here is a great email to Councilman Koretz from Zachary Elgart, food truck customer.
Councilman Koretz,
Your unfounded and discriminatory position regarding food trucks and their place in our Los Angeles economy, and dining scene, is shocking. You should support businesses that try as hard as these people to provide a quality product at a reasonable price! In an economic climate such as ours,...
Dear Mr. Koretz
Mr. Koretz,
In response to your interview in the Park La Brea News / Beverly Press in the article titled, “Mobile Food Trucks are Eating Restaurants’ Lunch.” http://parklabreanewsbeverlypress.com/news/2010/02/mobile-food-trucks-are-eating-restaurants%E2%80%99-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-61 .
My name is Maxson Smith, and I am the owner/operator of the TastyMeat! truck. I am...
Food Truck Lot Downtown...
Food truck lot 2.0… Hopefully, LA will be cooler about a food truck lot. We’ve named the new lot the Traction Food Truck Lot, mostly because we’re going to have multiple lots downtown. There will be 5 trucks today, Fishlips, Barbie Q’s, Dosa, Komodo (excited to try this truck), and Kabob N’ Roll. I’ll be there all day directing traffic… Come by and...
January 2010
13 posts
LA Business Journal Article on Food Trucks →
Food Truck Fundraiser for Haiti-Tomorrow 11am-4pm →
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Santa Monica City Council Meeting 1/19
By some miracle, we actually got on the agenda for tomorrow’s City Council meeting. Santa Monica rarely moves this fast for anything. A big thanks to everyone who emailed and/or called into express your support for the SM food truck lot! I’m sure it had a big impact.
If you would like to come show your support at the City Council meeting, please be advised that we are LAST on the...
http://www.smdp.com/Articles-c-2010-01-10-67510.113... →
More about the SM Food Truck Lot
From the Planner
Date: January 7, 2010
Mayor and City Council Eileen Fogarty, Director of Planning and Community Development Food Vending Trucks
Introduction
On January 4, 2010 the City’s Code Compliance staff received a complaint regarding the use of a vacant lot at 1401 Santa Monica Boulevard for the Gourmet Food Truck Corner, a staging area for food vending trucks. The use is not permitted at the subject...
Call and voice your support.
If you have a space 30 seconds today, please call the Santa Monica City Council at (310) 458-8201. Give your name and tell them that you support the Santa Monica Food Truck Lot!
Thanks in Advance!
Fight Another Day!
The Santa Monica Food Truck Lot battle wages on. With the help of our twitter followers (thank you, thank you, thank you), we’ve put pressure on the City to act fast to resolve this issue. Many of the letters highlighted the fact that there is some ambiguity in the zoning regulations (see letter below), which was our thought as well.
Today we’ve got a Land Use attorney trying to...
Another Great Letter from a LA resident
City Council Members, I was very disappointed to hear that the Santa Monica Food Lot had been shut down. When I first heard about this amazing array of trucks congregating in Santa Monica I felt as if our city (and I mean in the larger sense: Los Angeles) had turned some little corner in an attempt to inject some community to this part of the world. I also, being a resident of the Hollywood Hills,...
A great email to the SM City Council
Special thanks to Alexis (@littleartwork) for her email to the city council.
Dear City Council,
I am writing to inform you of my extreme displeasure at the decision to shut down the food truck lot on 14th and Santa Monica. The so-called “zoning” problem isn’t the issue, because the C4 District specifically allows “restaurants,” which is what the food trucks are....
Zoning responses
Tanya77: We got one yesterday….
Kelela: We’re fighting! Hopefully the City will see this as mutually beneficial for everyone. I can’t understand why they would rather have a vacant lot instead of a thriving business that people want.
6od: We should worship at the alter of the food truck!
writer-a: It’s not worth it to look for another lot in Santa Monica since there...
zoning
Santa Monica shut down the Food Truck Lot today. According to the Code Enforcement City Official, the C4 zone in which the lot resides does not list “Food Truck Lot” as an acceptable use. If the Zone does not expressly permit the activity then it is prohibited. Since there is no mention of Food Truck Lot in the zoning code we’re out of luck.
Let me know what you think on...
1/5/2010
Today’s line-up: FrySmith, Barbies Q, India Jones and Dainty Cakes Get your GRUB ON!!! I’m still working on getting a few more trucks! Some trucks are waiting on their Santa Monica Business License… Hope to see you there!
New tumblr account!
Thanks to writer-a.tumblr.com for introducing me to tumblr.