Provo, UT Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)

080 governs mobile food businesses that sell within the public right-of-way, including sidewalks. Vendors must obey Title 9 parking and traffic rules, and may not park on a parkway or other landscaped area. Where a vendor uses a right-of-way parking space, the vehicle must park in a parallel space only, and it cannot be positioned so that it or waiting customers block access to adjacent parking stalls, driveways, or building entrances. The vending window must face the sidewalk or private property unless the roadway is closed for a public event.

No mobile food business may occupy the parking stalls required for the primary use on a lot. Critically for sidewalk activity, the code states the business "shall ensure that its use of the right-of-way, including the sidewalk, in no way interferes with or limits sidewalk users' free and unobstructed passage," and no sales may be made to a person standing in the roadway unless that roadway is closed to traffic for a public event. Vendors are also barred from operating on public streets with a speed limit above 35 mph, unless the street is closed for an event or the location is flagged as hazardous by the Provo City Engineering Division.

090, which caps sidewalk-adjacent canopy height at seven feet and bans walled enclosures, chairs, tables, and umbrellas in the parkway. 32, and the violation is independently charged as a Class B misdemeanor.