{"id":205181,"date":"2026-03-25T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205181\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:57:08","slug":"jacksonville-lifts-major-food-truck-restrictions-after-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205181\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville lifts major food truck restrictions after lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big win for Jacksonville food trucks this week, as heavy restrictions have now been lifted <a href=\"https:\/\/ij.org\/case\/north-carolina-food-trucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">due to a lawsuit brought on by local business owners.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Anthony Proctor, owner of The Spot, a Florida-style seafood restaurant, it has been 3.5 years, so that food trucks could be treated like any other local restaurant. But he says that this isn\u2019t just about winning or losing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just about having the freedom to be able to operate, to earn a living in this city in which we pay taxes, a city that I love\u2013 I love this city, so I\u2019m just excited!<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Proctor owns The Spot, a Florida-style seafood restaurant and food truck.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a huge huge huge thing for all the trucks that are out there.<\/p>\n<p>He, alongside Nicole Gonzalez, owner of Northwoods Urban Farm, and Octavious Raymond, owner of The Cheesesteak Hustle, were involved in a lawsuit to change the restrictive and unconstitutional rules, including the inability to make a living.<\/p>\n<p>In North Carolina in particular, the state Constitution guarantees us a fundamental right to earn a living and what that means is the government needs a good reason if they\u2019re going to say you can\u2019t earn a living in an ordinary manner.<\/p>\n<p>The judge awarded the businesses involved nominal damages and ordered the city to pay court costs.<\/p>\n<p>But Proctor says he is just glad they can move forward.<\/p>\n<p>We have the opportunity to really impact by providing just more options to our citizens, so I\u2019m excited.<\/p>\n<p>Not only are they now able to provide those options, but also to work together.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>We can share customers with each other, provide one place where people can come and shop from us both and we can support each other\u2013 I think it will be wonderful for the community, for small businesses, for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A big win for Jacksonville food trucks this week, as heavy restrictions have now been lifted due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-205181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}