LOS ANGELES BANNING TACO TRUCKS

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HEAVYMETALGANGSTER

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Led by District 1 County Supervisor Gloria Molina, the L.A. Board of Supervisors has passed new restrictions that will effectively eliminate taco trucks from our streets. Under Supervisor Molina’s new rules, taco trucks will have to change location every hour, or face a misdemeanor charge carrying a $1000 fine and/or jail. Yes, jail.


Taco Trucks are a special facet of Los Angeles, and something we don’t want to lose. Though this ordinance currently affects just unincorporated parts of L.A., that’s 65% of the County. And of course it opens up the doors for legislation closer to home too.


Let’s send Gloria Molina and the L.A. Board of Supervisors a message that we cherish our local vendors and don’t want to see them move away.
This new law needs to be repealed!
 
numba2stunna

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|GOD|||ZILLA| said:
do you guys even read?.. they're not gettin' banned.. they just have to move every hour..
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Yeah I read that... same difference getting rid of them.. only slower... now they will have to move and find new locations every hour cutting down their business traffic, hours operation, etc. soon they will go under or will have to do like the Ice Cream Man... drive around playing Mexican music trying to avoid a noise pollution ticket and make a living.
 
surcaliman

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from last weeks L.A.times

Remember a bunch of stories we did this year about taco trucks in Los Angeles, which local restaurant owners were complaining had an unfair competitive advantage?

Well, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Wednesday overturned a controversial ordinance passed in April by county supervisors that made it a misdemeanor in unincorporated parts of the county to park a taco truck in one spot for more than an hour, Garrett Therolf reports.

Which means that East L.A's taco trucks are back in full force -- at least for now. Therolf writes:

The language of the ordinance, Judge Dennis A. Aichroth said, was "vague" and therefore "unconstitutional" in its description of how quickly a vendor could return to an area where the truck was previously parked. Aichroth said it also violated the vehicle code because county supervisors had not properly established that it was written in the interest of public safety.

The attorney who won the case on behalf of Margarita Garcia, a ticketed taco vendor whose violation was dismissed by Aichroth, said he expected that the county would try to rewrite the law. "It'll probably be just as miserable as the one they just wrote," said Philip C. Greenwald, who represents a newly formed association of catering truck operators. "They won't win."

Click here to visit the SaveOurTacoTrucks.org website, maintained by two Highland Park taco lovers.
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http://saveourtacotrucks.org/
 
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