People living near Brookdale Avenue will have new food options, Fatty’s Pizza patrons won’t have to leave their car, and Love’s Travel Stop plans more overnight parking following Monday’s Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission hearings. 

At 3527 Brookdale Ave., P&Z approved Chriszetta Mercado’s “Lot Bites” proposal for a nearly 24,000-square-foot concrete parking platform for up to three food trucks that would lease spaces. 

Macon–Bibb County Mayor Pro Tem Valerie Wynn told commissioners she favors having more options in that “food desert,” but questioned whether the food trucks will be affordable. 

“The folks that live there can’t buy $15 tacos and hamburgers and stuff you see at the Cherry Blossom Festival or some place like that,” Wynn said. “I’d like to see a vegetable food truck, or fruit food truck, something that the residents around there that can come, can afford to buy.” 

Donnell Somerset, who represented Mercado at the hearing, said they plan to lease to trucks providing a variety of affordable food options. 

P&Z Commissioner Kesia Stafford said, “If a food truck is not viable, I mean if they’re not profitable to be there, they probably won’t come back there.”

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