Jacksonville City Council Passes Bill To Prohibit Food Trucks At Gas Stations

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – During nan Tuesday nighttime meeting, nan Jacksonville City Council passed a measure that would prohibition nutrient trucks from operating astatine state stations.

Ordinance 2025-0159, introduced by Councilman Joe Carlucci, prohibits nutrient trucks from preparing and/or trading nutrient aliases beverages astatine state stations.

The measure passed pinch a 12 to 7 vote.

“The extremity is really rather simple: Prevent highly combustible nutrient trucks astatine a highly combustible state station,” Carlucci told nan Jacksonville Planning Commission astatine its March 20 meeting.

The National Fire Protection Association says nary information exists specifically connected nutrient motortruck fires, arsenic immoderate are classified arsenic conveyance fires and immoderate arsenic edifice fires- but opportunity they’ve go much communal arsenic nan trucks turn successful popularity.

“This is simply a debased frequency, precocious consequence type of arena that is being talked about,” Jacksonville Fire Rescue Chief Keith Powers said.

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Those who opposed nan measure based on that it addressed a non-existent problem and threatened their livelihoods.

“There’s nary logic for america to travel successful and create a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist,” District 14 Councilman Rahman Johnson told News4JAX. “Yes, we want to make judge nan nutrient trucks are safe, but that needs to beryllium nan focus—making judge that each nutrient trucks and trailers are safe, not conscionable looking astatine ones astatine state stations.”

The measure now goes to nan mayor’s desk, wherever she will either motion aliases veto it.

If nan measure goes into effect, nutrient motortruck owners will look a $250 good each time they’re successful violation.

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