On a gloomy Tuesday in Dearborn in mid-May, food trucks dotted Michigan Avenue and Ford Road, many set up in the parking lots of gas stations and retail shops, offering tacos, chicken, burgers and shawarma.

The chilly day's unusually quiet lunch hour for the trucks belied the flourishing popularity of food trucks in Dearborn, which is now host to more than two dozen.

But the trucks that have set up in parking lots of other businesses will have to move by the end of this summer. Dearborn is the latest city in Metro Detroit to impose new regulations on where food trucks can operate, as municipalities look for ways to curb unsafe practices and protect existing restaurants from what they consider unfair competition.

After two years of debate, the new measures governing Dearborn's burgeoning

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