Ice cream trucks will again be allowed to operate in Riverside following the village board’s most recent discussion of food truck licensing regulations on Thursday, April 16. That discussion may be its last before the village passes an ordinance putting the matter to rest.
With trustees having reached a consensus on the rules for food trucks contracted for a special event in February, Community Development Director Anne Cyran asked the board to weigh in on a few open threads for food trucks seeking to be licensed as a business for daily operation.
“There was an issue that was previously mentioned by staff but not discussed by the board,” Cyran said. “The issue is whether the owner of a multi-unit commercial shopping center should be able to wave the 100-foot separation requirement between a food truck on their property and a brick-and-mortar restaurant on the same property. The one example of this would be the Shining Smiles shopping center” at the corner of Harlem Avenue and Longcommon Road…