City of Albuquerque - File #: O-15-36

• File #: O-15-36
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 1/5/2015
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 9/9/2015
• Enactment date: 9/23/2015
• Enactment #: O-2015-024
• Title: C/S(2) Amending The Zoning Code To Permit And Regulate Mobile Food Units On Private Property; And Amending The Parking Code To Regulate Mobile Food Units In Public Rights-Of-Way (Benton)
• Sponsors: Isaac Benton

Date	Action By	Action	Result
9/23/2015	City Clerk	Published
9/22/2015	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
9/16/2015	City Council	Sent to Mayor for Signature
9/9/2015	City Council	Passed as Amended	Pass
9/9/2015	City Council	Amended	Pass
8/17/2015	City Council	Accepted with a recommendation Do Pass, As Substituted
8/12/2015	Land Use, Planning, and Zoning Committee	Sent to Council with a recommendation of Do Pass, as Substituted	Pass
8/12/2015	Land Use, Planning, and Zoning Committee	Substituted	Pass
6/10/2015	Land Use, Planning, and Zoning Committee	Postponed as Substituted	Pass
6/10/2015	Land Use, Planning, and Zoning Committee	Substituted	Pass
1/5/2015	City Council	Introduced and Referred
1/5/2015	President	Referred

CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY-FIRST COUNCIL


COUNCIL BILL NO. C/S(2) O-15-36 ENACTMENT NO. _____________________

SPONSORED BY: Isaac Benton


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C/S(2) Amending The Zoning Code To Permit And Regulate Mobile Food Units On Private Property; And Amending The Parking Code To Regulate Mobile Food Units In Public Rights-Of-Way (Benton)
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AMENDING THE ZONING CODE TO PERMIT AND REGULATE MOBILE FOOD UNITS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY; AND AMENDING THE PARKING CODE TO REGULATE MOBILE FOOD UNITS IN PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY.
WHEREAS, the food truck industry is a growing and vital economic generator, and there is increased popularity of food trucks in the City of Albuquerque; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to promote and accommodate the growth of the food truck industry while helping to preserve equity with the City's valuable and important site-built restaurant industry; and
WHEREAS, encouraging and accommodating food trucks to set up and operate from privately-owned parcels as opposed to public rights-of-way may help provide parity with the City's site-built restaurant industry which bears overhead and carrying costs associated with real property not born by food trucks; and
WHEREAS, presently there are no on-street use limitations for food trucks, and nothing prevents a food truck from setting up and operating in close proximity to site-built restaurants - which both eliminates parking availability for area site-built land uses and deprives the City of revenue from parking fees; and
WHEREAS, a food truck's ability to operate from private property is presently limited by the zoning code's limits on outdoor activity, and by a longstanding interpretation that applies to food trucks which limits outdoor activities to a maximum of two-hours per day on private property without a conditional use permit; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of this ordinance is to ease the zoning requirements for food trucks on private property while placing r...