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“ but finding new use for a blank space in the city is a classic example of unexpectedly exploiting for private gain something that is otherwise agreed to be utilized within certain limits of decorum (parking lots are for cars, not restaurants”

Have you looked at Portland’s experience with lining parking lots with food trucks? - and then coming up with a new zoning designation for “food pods”

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Yes, in a previous role I looked extensively at the food truck practices in the US. The pods are cool and it seems likely that the upheaval that Portland and SF and other cities experienced during the food truck boom will come back anew once autonomous vehicles are cheaper and more widely distributed. Like food truck pods, but for vending machines.

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