Kenosha, WI Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)

035 governs any stand or structure placed on City property, including sidewalks, street rights-of-way, parks, and lawn park areas, from which peddling is conducted, requiring Common Council permission before setup. A stand must sit either within a designated peddler zone established by Council resolution or in conjunction with an approved public event, and stands cannot be authorized within 800 feet of a permanent business retailing similar or competing products, or wherever they would create a public or private nuisance or obstruct vehicular or pedestrian traffic.

The section deems a vendor to have a stand, even without a physical structure, once they remain in one location for more than 15 minutes within an 8-hour period, capturing sidewalk food carts and trucks that park and serve rather than travel continuously. Permits run October 1 through September 30 at $100 annually or $25 for a single day, filed with the City Clerk along with a scaled location map; a newly approved stand location is subject to a 30-day probationary period during which any written complaint sends the location back to the Common Council for reconsideration. , and vendors using City utilities must pay charges set by the Superintendent of Parks. 4.