North Aurora to require licenses for food trucks
If the operators of the trendy Toasty Cheese or Babycakes Gourmet food trucks want to sell their wares in North Aurora, they can.
As long as they pay $50 for an annual permit, and follow some new rules.
The village board established a "mobile food vendor" license earlier this week for food trucks and pushcarts.
Trucks and carts will not be allowed to park longer than two hours in any one spot, unless it is at a special event approved by the village. And they can't set up on private property without the permission of the property's owner.
The vendors will have to show they have obtained a license from the Kane County Health Department.
Previously, the village didn't have rules one way or the other about mobile food vendors.
Nearby
The discussion started when a vendor inquired about setting up a trailer in the parking lot of a Sherwin Williams store on Orchard Gateway Boulevard during warmer weather.
According to a list compiled by North Aurora's community development director, neighboring Aurora licenses food trucks, and only allows them on private property and at special events.
Batavia requires a peddler's license.
Geneva prohibits them.
Sugar Grove allows them on private property during special events.
Elgin allows them at special events.
And South Elgin's parks department this summer arranged for different food trucks to set up weekly at SEBA Park.