Credit to: Coastal Point, Susan Canfora

Members of the Small Restaurant Regulatory Reform Task Force will begin meeting this week to work on ways to make it easier for small businesses to open without being faced with the same requirements imposed on those operating large establishments.

State Sens. Gerald Hocker and Russell Huxtable are among the 15 members of the task force, said state Rep. Jeff Spiegelman, a Realtor, who initiated it. Representing Townsend, Smyrna and Clayton, he said he has heard complaints from clients at his family’s real estate agency, The Moving Experience, but the concerns aren’t limited to northern Delaware.

“The problem is all throughout Delaware,” he said. “I’ve had clients in Sussex County. We are dealing with codes…

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Credit to: Coastal Point, Susan Canfora

Despite objections from Mayor Edie Dondero, the South Bethany Town Council will ask the Town’s Charter & Code Committee to review what size cabanas, or tents, should be allowed on the beach.

Tents — discussed during the Friday, July 11, council meeting — were situated on the beach during the Fourth of July weekend, when the beach is particularly crowded, Councilman Bob Shields said, adding that they “occupy a lot of space on the beach and often don’t have anybody sitting under them.”

He suggested not allowing large tents that have anchoring mechanisms that stretch out on the sides and only permitting small tents.

He said the Town of Bethany Beach doesn’t allow structures except umbrellas (it also…

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By unanimous vote, the South Bethany Town Council this week approved on second reading an ordinance to allow food trucks on Town property.

Councilwoman Chris Keefe, at the Friday, June 27, council meeting, said the trucks will be allowed at Town-sponsored events only.

“We’ve had to adjust the ordinance to allow that. The ordinance changes the definition of a food truck — a large vehicle or trailer licensed and equipped to cook, prepare and sell food. We added a sentence to this ordinance saying licensed trucks that have received prior authorization from the Town to participate in special events sponsored by the Town and held on town property. Before, they we were not allowed at all, but that doesn’t prevent having food delivered to homes,” she…

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