November 12, 2010 | 4:42 PM | By

KNS Video: Jack Evans on Food Truck Regulations

FILED UNDER: Culture, Food Trucks, Kojo, Video

Below the jump, you’ll find a video from WAMU’s The Kojo Nnamdi Show, featuring a brief discussion on food trucks. It stars Council member Jack Evans, the Washington Post’s Mike DeBonis and KNS regular/NBC 4 reporter, Tom Sherwood.

As someone who has spoken to food truck owners for this blog, I’m dismayed that “official” D.C. is so inhospitable to them. They increase the diversity of food offerings in this town, trek out to feed under-served neighborhoods and create a much lower barrier to starting a business– which is helpful if you’re young, a person of color, etc. Thankfully, Kojo points out in the video below that if we want “to be considered a major city”, food trucks are a part of that. The Washington Post’s Mike DeBonis also thinks that trucks are an asset to D.C.

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  • http://twitter.com/zfree zfree

    Jack Evans is a corporate lackey who represents the worst of DC politics, insider maneuvering that benefits the few at the expense of us all. http://thefightback.org/2010/10/jack-evans-conflicts-of-interest-exposed/

    Back when DC was Chocolate there were so many independent businesses (vendors) serving government and K St types, then in the 80′s they began picking them off and pricing them out. To what end? So that big box retailers could squash the character of the city and provide low-wage jobs? We’ve got to allow for creatives to contribute to the economy or just stamp the town Disney City.

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