Established restaurateurs and chamber-of-commerce types do not want lunch trucks in downtown Asheville because it cheapens the scene. An existing ordinance prohibits the mobile merchants from competing with stationary ones. The roving vendors have been lobbying for a new ordinance. A compromise ordinance would allow them to set up shop in landscaped parking lots (conjuring images of portable plants) provided they don’t take up parking spaces used by restaurants with walls. Restaurateur Dwight Butner would like to conduct an economic analysis to determine whether the ordinance would be a good thing or not. He does not like the idea because he and others invested in Asheville when it was a dump. Now that they have made it vibrant, the lunch truck people want to hitch a ride. Kitty Love says the analysis would serve as a filibuster to prevent trucks from selling until chill autumn winds begin blowing again. The Citizen-Times polled members of city council to test the waters.