Commerce City, CO Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)

Section 9-3303(b), titled "Use of public spaces," tells every licensed outdoor vendor, including a mobile food operator, that it may not obstruct, impede or otherwise interfere with the public's use of streets, rights-of-way, sidewalks, parking lots, metered spaces, parks or any other public property, unless a law expressly authorizes the interference. Except where the law expressly authorizes it, the section bars a vendor's structure or display device from four specific things: sitting within any portion of a street, alley, roadway or highway designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic (other than briefly transporting goods to, from or within the licensed location); sitting on a public sidewalk within thirty feet of the extended boundaries of a crosswalk; sitting within ten feet of the extension of any building entranceway, doorway or driveway; and sitting anywhere in a manner that impedes, interferes with or visually obstructs the safe movement of vehicular or pedestrian traffic.

The same division adds that no outdoor vendor acquires any exclusive right to a spot in the public streets, alleys or rights-of-way except as the city separately authorizes, so a vendor cannot claim a favorite sidewalk corner as its own from one day to the next. These placement rules sit on top of, not instead of, the separate distance requirements from residences, restaurants and schools set out in section 9-3303(a), and a vendor who satisfies the distance rule but blocks a doorway or crosswalk is still in violation.