Proposed DC Food Truck Regs Could Wreck Industry

Popular vending locations would not fit with placement restrictions

The language in question from the District's proposed vending regulations sounds innocuous enough: Food trucks may not vend from a parking spot adjacent to an "unobstructed sidewalk" that's "less than ten feet (10 ft.) wide in the Central Business District."

But since the proposed regulations were published in October, members of the D.C. Food Truck Association have been trying to determine what those words could mean for their businesses, and what they've learned has unnerved them: Eight of the 10 most popular food-truck destinations downtown do not technically comply with the proposed rules as written, according to research done by the association.