• New Bedford council on verge of approving food truck ordinance
• NEW BEDFORD — The city is on the verge of allowing food trucks
to set up in public places during daytime hours.     • email
print     Councilors Henry Bousquet of Ward 3 and James Oliveira
of Ward 1 have co-sponsored a change to city bylaws that would
allow operation of stationary food trucks during the day;
currently, they're only allowed between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m., the
result of a restrictive ordinance enacted 15 years ago.     The
proposed ordinance has already passed its first reading and is
expected to be easily confirmed at the council's next meeting.
If so, it will be the end of a two-year effort to make the food
carts so popular in other American cities more prevalent in New
Bedford.     Under current regulations, food trucks can only
operate during the day if they're moving along quickly. But it's
important for the trucks to be standing still rather than
constantly rolling about the city as ice cream trucks do,
Bousquet said.     "