There are many complex issues facing Oak Park. The use of Flock surveillance cameras is one we wrote about in the editorial just above. Perhaps a debate over tensions between brick-and-mortar restaurants and food trucks is somewhere on the list, though Oak Park trustees dispatched it to a back burner on July 22.
However, tucked into the village board’s food discussion was a rare moment of clarity in Oak Park, courtesy of Trustee Cory Wesley.
An ice cream truck is not a food truck!
“I don’t want ice cream trucks in this. Ice cream trucks are not food trucks – there’s a difference,” he said.
Ice cream trucks drive up and down streets, incessantly playing some nursery rhyme song. Young children clamor for a couple of bucks from their parents to buy a Fudgsicle, Creamsicle, or one of those demented strawberry shortcake confections. (But check to see if ice cream trucks still take cash.)
Maybe a smart ice cream truck driver knows enough to park for an hour outside a park during a ballgame. Still not a food truck.
In a town criticized for over-regulation, Wesley is right. Leave ice cream trucks alone.