This document summarizes a panel discussion on the topic of food trucks and gentrification. The panelists included planners and analysts from Los Angeles, Portland, and New York who discussed regulating mobile food vending while balancing the interests of communities, economic growth, and land use rules. The objectives were to identify implications of land use policies on food trucks, learn how to balance various stakeholder needs, and find approaches to an evolving issue. Examples from Los Angeles noted regulations before and after social media brought more attention to the topic.

1. Twitter Me This: Taco Trucks &
Cupcakes
GENTRIFICATION,
EVOLUTION, OR
SOMETHING IN BETWEEN?

2. Panelists
Gabriela Juarez, Planner, Department of City
Planning, City of Los Angeles
Wendy Carrillo, M. A., Ethnojournalist
Alma Flores, Economic Development Planner,
Bureau of Planning & Sustainability, Portland, OR
Maria Garcia, Transportation Analyst, New York
Metropolitan Transportation Council

3. Objectives
Identifying and understanding the land use implications
in regulating mobile food vending
Learning to strike a balance between the interests and
needs of various ethnic communities, economic growth,
and land use regulation
Identifying possible approaches as solutions to a
recurring issue that continues to evolve
Network!

4. Los Angeles

5. Los Angeles – B.T. (Before Twitter)
County Ordinance
City Ordinance
Los Angeles Superior Court Decision Overturning
County and City Ordinance

6. Los Angeles – A. T. (After Twitter)