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, when spending is being cut back by everyone, it is impressive to see the demand that these establishments are able to drum up (i.e. lines around the block).  I understand that some other businesses are suffering, but that is not the fault of anyone but their proprietors.  When confronted with business adversity one needs to adapt.  Also, food trucks encourage Los Angelenos to venture out into parts of their city that they do not usually visit.  My partner and I have been consistently following trucks around Los Angeles from our home here in West L.A. and I know we are only two of the vast numbers of citizens who do the same thing to support this wonderful new industry.  By travelling to other areas within Los Angeles we are getting to know our community much better and appreciate its uniqueness even more, not to mention the money we are spending in other neighborhoods while we are at it.  Is it not true that in a capitalist economy and society that some businesses must suffer for others to prosper?  Who are you to say which businesses deserve the right to succeed?  You need to strongly re-think your stance on this issue, and try the trucks you so quickly admonish before making any more statements or decisions.

Sincerely,

Zachary Elgart

Voter from West L.A.