Two longtime food cart pods in downtown Portland will close later this year after the development company that operates them says the city’s new regulations around waste disposal are unreasonably onerous.
The two pods, operated on parking lots owned by the Downtown Development Group, are at Southwest 3rd Avenue and Washington Street, and Southwest 2nd Avenue and Oak Street. The former contains 15 food carts, and the latter has just four.
Matt Goodman, co-president of the real estate company, wrote about the impending closures in a July 28 email to Mayor Keith Wilson and the Portland City Council. Behind the closure, he said, are the city’s new regulations for waste disposal at food cart pods…