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From EfficientGov-August 18, 2017 Kentucky. "Smart cities have recognized that food trucks play an important role in developing a lively and vibrant local business climate," according to an IJ description of the case. `But instead of encouraging local entrepreneurs, Louisville officials use the city's 150-foot ban to punish food trucks for choosing a different business model than their brick-and-mortar competitors." Chicago's No-Food 'Track Bubble to Remain An extensive IJ sni(k about Chicago's 200-foot rule, points out that the concentration of more than 600 restaurants, coffee shops, and convenience stores in the city's Loop district, each with their own 200-foot buffer, creates a blanket of overlapping bubbles making it illegal to operate a food truck virtually anywhere downtown. The study stated food truck owners face 51,000 52,000 fines for parking too close to a brick-and- mortar restaurant in Chicago, dwarfing the fines of other parking safety restrictions,like the 5100 fine for parking at a bus stop. "The city's scheme therefore perversely incentivizes food trucks to break laws that protect the public's health-and-safety concerns instead of a law that protects only a competitor's bottom line," according to the study. In Dec. 2016, a Cook County judge upheld the city's 200-foot restriction on food trucks, rejecting arguments that the law gives traditional restaurants competitive advantages, according to an article in the G;il(i ,7Eo) `mi.THM `... The Institute for Justice is appealing the case. Branson Dialed. Luck Zoning to Enable Food 'Tracks Branson, Mo., also has a distance ordinance restriction for food trucks: they can't operate less than 100 feet from a restaurant without the owner's permission. That's OK with Peter Berzofsky, the co- owner of Spork Express;he's just happy to sell his food within city limits. Until this spring,Branson zoning code stated that businesses with a temporary structure couldn't operate in the city. This included food trucks,ice-cream trucks and lunch carts, according to Berzofsky, who owns Spork Express with his sister Jane Goss. "That stood for years and no one had ever challenged the law," Berzofsky said. Once a large resort became interested in bringing food trucks onsite, the city began to draft an ordinance to change the rule. The process took a year, said Berzofsky, and when it was published for approval by the Branson Board of Aldermen,it was too restrictive, requiring water, sewer and electrical hook ups, and tornado tie downs for each truck, as well as a 1,000-gallon grease interceptor. Berzofsky, his sister and a friend who owns an ice-cream truck attended multiple meetings in an attempt to have the city back off the restrictions. Berzofsky said he convinced the city engineer and board members to visit Spork Express at a neighboring city's farmers market.