Greenwich, CT Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)

Sec. 3-15.2(4) defines "public street" broadly to include "any sidewalk or other part of such public street set aside for pedestrian traffic," which pulls sidewalk vending into the same rules that govern vending on Greenwich's streets and parking lots. Sec. 3-20.1(a) then fixes the format for that vending: on public streets and in parking lots, a vendor must sell only from a motor vehicle and is barred from using any stand, rack, table or similar structure set up near the vehicle, so a food cart or folding table planted on a sidewalk is off the table even for a permitted vendor.

The same subsection caps the footprint of the operation by limiting the vending vehicle to occupying no more than one marked parking space, which keeps a food truck from spreading tables, coolers or signage across the adjoining sidewalk. This vehicle-only format applies together with the permit and insurance requirements of Article 2's other sections, meaning a food vendor cannot use a permit to justify operating a walk-up stand on a Greenwich sidewalk instead of vending directly from the truck itself. The rule reflects the pedestrian-traffic purpose behind the sidewalk portion of the public street definition: keeping the format contained to the vehicle preserves a clear path of travel rather than letting vending equipment spill across the sidewalk surface.