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Don’t go looking for food trucks in the Plateau because you won’t find them on the streets of one of the city’s hippest boroughs.

Valérie Plante’s Projet Montréal administration announced outside City Hall Thursday morning that it is loosening the rules for food trucks in an attempt to give the business a boost. A central tenet of the new policy is that it will be up to the individual boroughs to manage the food trucks in their area.

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You might think the Plateau-Mont-Royal would be the ideal neighbourhood for food trucks. It has some of the most happening nightlife in the city, is a place where people go to have fun, and it has no shortage of well-to-do residents who have disposable income and have shown a tendency to be open to trying new things.

But the Plateau administration headed by borough mayor Luc Ferrandez has refused to let food trucks operate on the streets of the borough since the trucks first began appearing in Montreal six years ago and they have no plans to change that policy.