According to Otero, there are about 15 food trucks operating without proper city permits in downtown Oakland right now. Back in 2011, when the city first allowed food truck events to be held in Oakland, councilmembers didn’t want to fully open up the city to mobile food because they hadn’t figured out a way to enforce the law, according to Devan Reiff, the city’s project manager for the new mobile food program. For 2017, Oakland issued just 11 permits to food trucks and 17 to carts under the old program, while the health department gave permits to 75 food trucks and 43 pushcarts in Oakland, according to a February city report.