Madison Residents Overwhelmingly Support Food Trucks

Madison residents apparently really like their food trucks after all.

According to The Source’s Jack Kramer the survey showed the following:

• 81 percent have patronized the food trucks;

• 85 percent think the trucks should remain at the current School Street location;

• 58 percent also believe the trucks should be allowed in the parking lot to the west of Academy School;

• 57 percent think there should be a limit on the number of food trucks;

• 51 percent think the right number of trucks operating should be between four and six, 25 percent think between one and three is the right number, and 24 percent think seven or more is best.

Read the Source’s full story here.

The Madison Board of Selectmen voted Monday to allow food truck vendors to continue to operate on the more visible north street side of School Street for the next two weeks, reports Kramer.

Kramer reports that the selectmen will review more than 1,000 comments to best decide the long-term future of the food trucks.

Madison is trying to find out what you think about food trucks and where they should be located in town.

On the town’s official website there are six questions for residents to respond to specifically concerning food trucks and where they should be located. Click here to respond to the survey.

If you haven’t been following the Madison food truck debate here is some background. This summer the selectmen voted to move the trucks from near the Green to Academy Street, which has essentially hurt business and now food truck vendors are taking action including scaling back their hours of operations, The Source has reported

When Madison decided to move the controversial food trucks from the more visible Boston Post Road location near the Green to Academy Street several trucks didn’t make the move.

Besides moving to a less desirable location they have to pay a $500 parking fee and there are certain dates that they can’t be there.