{"id":45829,"date":"2021-07-09T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-passes-ordinance-to-allow-for-food-trucks\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:27:37","slug":"dolores-passes-ordinance-to-allow-for-food-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-passes-ordinance-to-allow-for-food-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores passes ordinance to allow for food trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e9645ef2-ee54-5a88-b49b-6f6d0b5c936f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"504\" height=\"476\" alt=\"Food trucks, such as Kelly's Kitchen, operate in Dolores under a new ordinance. (Courtesy Kelly's Kitchen)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Food trucks, such as Kelly's Kitchen, operate in Dolores under a new ordinance. (Courtesy Kelly's Kitchen)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Dolores Town Board has passed an ordinance to allow for mobile food trucks and pushcarts.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new ordinance, the food trucks and pushcarts must obtain a business license from town, pay a fee and go through an annual inspection process.<\/p>\n<p>They are required to have a food-service certification from the Montezuma County Health Department, and pay state and local taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Food trucks and pushcarts are allowed to operate within designated commercial areas and park areas in town, and are prohibited from operating in all other zones. A $50 per day fee is require to operate in a public park.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ordinance, hood suppression systems are recommended, but not required, for food truck operations that create grease-laden vapors when cooking.<\/p>\n<p>The suppression systems use a chemical to extinguish grease fires. All restaurants have this system.<\/p>\n<p>If already equipped with a hood-suppression system, the unit must be inspected bi-annually and tagged by a third party inspector.<\/p>\n<p>Dolores building inspector David Doudy said Colorado is considering requiring hood suppression systems for all food trucks, and the latest building codes require them.<\/p>\n<p>If Dolores upgrades its building code, or if the state decides to require them, the Dolores ordinance would need to be amended, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Doudy has inspected about 6 food trucks operating in Dolores.<\/p>\n<p>The town decided to pursue a food truck ordinance because of its increasing popularity, said town manager Ken Charles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreviously they were not allowed, so this ordinance allows them to operate now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday Food and Fun Night in Dolores features food trucks at Central Avenue and Fourth Street from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. then a drive-in movie at Joe Rowell park.<\/p>\n<p>People are encouraged to pick up a meal at the food trucks or a local restaurant to enjoy while they are watching the movie.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-b47377772218d30f229a11c496fa97a1\"><a href=\"mailto:jmimiaga@the-journal.com\">jmimiaga@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>License and inspections are required to operate <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[431,44,438,1523,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-business-general","tag-dolores","tag-food","tag-food-safety","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86651,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45829\/revisions\/86651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45829"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}