The city prefers to “help” brick-and-mortar restaurants by quelling food truck freedom: Food trucks can’t operate within 250 feet of certain properties, such as any property with a brick-and-mortar restaurant, where every other type of food vendor is allowed. ![]() That is because Jacksonville officials take a dim view of food truck businesses, including their importance to Tony and Ray’s efforts to earn a living, and to Nicole’s plans for her private property. Nicole could open a restaurant on her property where Tony could sell the Florida-style seafood he now sells elsewhere from his food truck, “The Spot,” or she could do the same for the Philly cheesesteaks Ray serves the hungry Marines at Camp LeJeune from their food truck, “The Cheesesteak Hustle.” What Nicole cannot do, however, is simply let Tony or Ray park on her private property and sell food from their food trucks. Nicole Gonzalez owns property in Jacksonville where she’d like to host a food truck alongside her general goods store there Anthony Proctor (“Tony”) and Octavius Raymond (“Ray”) are both Marine veterans and hardworking food truck entrepreneurs who want to accept invitations from property owners like Nicole to set up and sell their food to Jacksonville’s hungry residents. Unfortunately, the city of Jacksonville, North Carolina, decided that protecting restaurants from competition by food trucks is more important than equally respecting its residents’ fundamental rights to earn an honest living and to use their private property in a safe and reasonable manner. ![]() If a restaurant is allowed on private property, a food truck should be too.
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