Cocoa, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

Cocoa's zoning code (Appendix A, article XIII, section 32) treats a mobile food dispensing vehicle as a type of 'mobile vending unit' and regulates where and how it may operate, while leaving licensing, registration, permitting and fees to the state under Fla. 102. On private property, a mobile vendor may not operate unless the property owner has obtained a site plan authorizing accessory mobile vending sales under subsection (G), and in no case may a specific vendor operate on the same parcel for more than 60 total consecutive or nonconsecutive days in a calendar year.

To get that site plan approval, the property owner submits a site plan or detailed sketch to the city manager showing the proposed location of the vending unit, all parking spaces, entrances and exits, and distances to buildings, sidewalks, rights-of-way, fire hydrants, fire lanes and landscaped areas. If the master site plan for the property does not already show an approved mobile vending area, the owner must obtain supplemental site plan approval before the vehicle can operate, and the vending area must sit on a paved surface.

Separately, the vendor must keep a notarized affidavit from the property owner in the vehicle confirming permission to operate and acknowledging solid waste, maintenance and code-compliance obligations. Vendors selling at a public special event operate instead under the event's special event permit, and appointment-based mobile services, such as mobile pet grooming or catering hired for a private event, are allowed without a site plan. The city manager can suspend or revoke a site plan approval after notice and an informal hearing if a vendor operates in violation of these rules.