Ridgefield Brewery Petitioning Town's Food Truck Decision

RIDGEFIELD, CT - Town officials have informed Nod Hill Brewery that food trucks cannot regularly park in their lot on Route 7 due to its current “mobile food vendors” ordinance, the Ridgefield Press reported. In response, the brewery has started an online petition to garner support for changing this regulation.

The revised ordinance, passed in November 2016, stipulates that food trucks and vendor carts cannot park and do business in a given spot for more than 15 minutes, according to the Ridgefield Press. The rule was established in part to protect the interests of town restaurants and other businesses.

The petition suggests that the brewery's location and business model do not implicate the concerns officials had when they enacted the ban, the Ridgefield Press reported. Brewery officials had previously suggested the idea of a rotating system for the trucks, such as having a different truck each day of the week

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