Lodi, CA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

200 of the Lodi Development Code governs food truck parks operating as either the primary use of a property, seven days a week or up to three days a week on a recurring basis, or as an accessory use to another business. Subsection (A)(1)'s permit table sets the entitlement by truck count: a food truck pod with two to five trucks or a food truck hub with six to nine trucks each need a minor use permit, while a food truck plaza with ten or more trucks and any food truck park paired with a commissary co-location need a full use permit, regardless of whether the operation is recurring or permanent.

Subsection (A)(2) caps the total number of food truck parks, whether primary or accessory uses, at three anywhere within the incorporated city, a limit the code says will be reviewed periodically. Development standards attached to the permit include a minimum gross site area of five thousand square feet for a pod, hub or plaza and ten thousand square feet for a commissary co-location, two customer parking spaces for every motorized food wagon on site, at least one ADA-accessible restroom for parks up to nine trucks with a second required at ten or more trucks, and seating at three seats per truck for hubs, plazas and co-locations.

m. Every operator and vendor must also hold a San Joaquin County Environmental Health Permit and a separate city permit to operate a vending business under subsection (A)(5)(k).