In the photo: The popular food-truck industry in Kamloops includes Eats Amore, among others. KTW file photo
Kamloops’ rolling restaurateurs will most likely return to the downtown this spring, but don’t expect to see food trucks in many of the spots they occupied in 2014.
City planner Stephen Bentley said the city is still working out its 2015 plans for food trucks, but probably won’t have them parked in front of the Paramount Theatre on Victoria Street, nor outside the Kamloops Art Gallery on Fifth Avenue — two of three spaces it tested in a pilot project last year.
“The one in front of Gaglardi Square (at Seymour Street and Second Avenue), I think from the food trucks and the general feedback that we’ve got, that was the best one, so I think we’ll continue with that and maybe look at some other sites,” Bentley said.
The city is still pinning down other locations and it’s not yet clear if the number of possible spaces in which food trucks can park on public roads will expand or stay the same.
Trucks also have the option of parking on private property at the discretion of the owner.
Bentley is still awaiting results of a Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association survey about the trucks, as well as more feedback from truck owners who participated in the program last year.
He also wants to find out if the North Shore Business Improvement Association is interested in having trucks cross to the other side of the river.
“We’re kind of putting our feelers out now and, based on the feedback, we’ll be doing some tweaks and coming up with something,” Bentley said.
Kamloops city council should see a new food-truck proposal by April. If it approves, trucks could be parking on city streets again by May.
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