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Coronavirus-related allowances for food truck operations in Virginia Beach extended

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To help supplement food supply during the public health emergency, city officials said food trucks may continue to operate in Virginia Beach with certain restrictions through July 6.

Here’s how that goes:

Food trucks can operate on commercially zoned properties.

They may also go into residential areas to deliver pre-ordered food, much like other delivery drivers.

Food trucks must be parked on private, non-residential zoned properties (with permission of the property owner) in a legal parking space, and may finish and distribute their orders “in an orderly manner with safe social distancing,” according to a news release from the city.

That allows for the public to park and safely distance themselves from each other, while providing the opportunity for food to those that may supplement their food supply and limit their travel.

Food trucks may not accommodate walk-up customers, or park in the street because potential obstructions in the road (due to the size of the food truck) may conflict with residential streets.

For additional information, please contact the city’s Zoning Office at 757-385-8074.

John Mangalonzo
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John Mangalonzo (john@localdailymedia.com) is the managing editor of Local Voice Media’s Virginia papers – WYDaily (Williamsburg), Southside Daily (Virginia Beach) and HNNDaily (Hampton-Newport News). Before coming to Local Voice, John was the senior content editor of The Bellingham Herald, a McClatchy newspaper in Washington state. Previously, he served as city editor/content strategist for USA Today Network newsrooms in St. George and Cedar City, Utah. John started his professional journalism career shortly after graduating from Lyceum of The Philippines University in 1990. As a rookie reporter for a national newspaper in Manila that year, John was assigned to cover four of the most dangerous cities in Metro Manila. Later that year, John was transferred to cover the Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines. He spent the latter part of 1990 to early 1992 embedded with troopers in the southern Philippines as they fought with communist rebels and Muslim extremists. His U.S. journalism career includes reporting and editing stints for newspapers and other media outlets in New York City, California, Texas, Iowa, Utah, Colorado and Washington state.

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