Carrollton, TX Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

Article 29, Section E.5(h) of the April 2026 Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance lists the paperwork a food truck or food service facility operator must assemble before locating on a Transit Center district property. First, "all necessary City permits shall be obtained from the appropriate City departments prior to locating a food truck or food service facility on the property," which folds in the standard mobile-vendor and health permitting the Environmental Services Department administers under Chapter 116's Texas Food Establishment Rules adoption. Second, the operator must submit a signed agreement from the property owner authorizing use of the site for the truck's operation, including restroom access. Third, a separate signed agreement from the on-site restaurant or brewery owner must specifically authorize use of that owner's restroom during the truck's hours of operation.

These permit and agreement requirements sit on top of the siting rules in the rest of § E.5: the property must already carry a restaurant or, for food service facilities, an operating brewery as its certificated primary use, the truck is capped at two units combined with food service facilities per brewery lot, and operating hours cannot exceed the host business's own hours. Because the zoning ordinance requires the restroom agreement to be submitted "with all applications," Planning staff can reject an incomplete application outright rather than issue a conditional permit.