With a goal to attract even more mobile vendors, food trucks and buskers, the Town of Sylvan Lake has an updated bylaw in place with some slight changes to the designated areas for those types of activities.

Communications Officer Joanne Gaudet explains some of those tweaks.

“We did remove one of the former Food Truck Plaza’s that was located on Main Street, just because it wasn’t as visible or utilized by those vendors and some of the feedback was less likely that it would ever be used again in the future. We moved ahead to a Mobile Vending Plaza within Centennial Park, we added permission to that so that it could be used as a large fruit or vegetable vendor”.

The Town has also expanded the Food Truck Plaza area for Food Truck Thursdays on 50-A Avenue to have more capacity to host more vendors following a very successful season last year.

Gaudet says they've also included busking permissions under the updated bylaw.

“To encourage those performers who provide street performances for the public, either instruments, singing, dancing, juggling, even art work for donation. So we’ve identified locations in this bylaw for our buskers to set up and perform for allocated periods of time as well as the process to receive a permit for that”.

Other provisions under the bylaw include allowing mobile food carts like ice cream, hot dog and cold drink stands in Centennial Park, there's a designated Artists Plaza off of Lakeshore Drive and Centennial Street, and a new location on the east end of Centennial Street closer to Lakeshore Drive for recreational equipment rentals like paddle boards.

(Photo Courtesy Town of Sylvan Lake)