It is about making sure that one group isn't getting a massive subsidy through their use of public lands creative and unfair business environment.

OK so we're back to property taxes. for use of the "public land", which is still ridiculous, but fine.

Lol, why on earth would you think that? I'm not even saying food trucks should be "stopped", just that they need appropriate regulation.

If the appropriate regulation is making them pay to be on an equal footing as restaurants, that's stopping them. In the current $5000/year and without anywhere to operate, they're effectively stopped.

A private business operating a delivery service from private property with private vehicles is a completely different situation. As soon as you come asking for the use of public lands to run your business, it necessarily becomes the cities business to regulate the terms of that arrangement.

Here's you during the first ever attempts at food delivery: "It's unfair that one business can use the public roadways to deliver food outside of their zoning. Those restaurants were zoned for a certain area and now they use the public thoroughfares to cross over into non-commercial zones. If you open a food business you expect a certain claim to the surrounding customers, so imagine how difficult it is to suddenly see a business from across the city being able to deliver food to a customer beside you. That's an unfair business practice using a loophole in the laws masquerading as an efficiency."

Other vehicles are not operating a business from that location.

Yeah, they're doing nothing.

Are you Gord Perks? Who else can possibly talk about new businesses and instead of thinking "great, economic growth" reacts to how detrimental that competition is to existing businesses?

OH NO, A NEW BUSINESS! WE CAN'T HAVE THAT, THINK OF THE OLD BUSINESSES!