While the committee approval of the license fee reductions is a step in the right direction, Lentino said a long-term goal is to allow food carts to cook onboard. For carts' bigger brethren food trucks, the approval to cook onboard in 2012 came with stringent rules on where and for how long they could park. A lawsuit on behalf of food truck owners was filed soon after, and a judge ruled in favor of the city late last year in the long-simmering lawsuit. That ruling upheld the stipulations that a food truck can't remain in a space for more than two hours, must have GPS installed for the city to monitor its whereabouts, and must stay more than 200 feet (one-third of a city block) away from any brick-and-mortar business that serves food to the public.