Tamarac, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)

Section 10-3.5(E)(3) of the Land Development Code regulates every mobile food truck operating in the City of Tamarac, whether it is a Class I mobile kitchen that cooks and assembles a full menu on board or a Class II canteen truck limited to pre-cooked and pre-packaged items. A vendor cannot provide a dining area of any kind, including tables, chairs, booths, bar stools, benches or standup counters, and cannot sell to customers in a moving vehicle or otherwise run a drive-up operation; a food truck is meant to sell and move on, not create a sidewalk cafe.

Parking placement is tightly restricted: a truck cannot sit within twenty-five feet of a crosswalk, within twenty-five feet of a fire hydrant or storm drainage structure, in any fire lane or law-enforcement parking area, in an off-street parking or loading space required for the property's existing land use, or within a sight visibility triangle defined in § 10-6.3. Day-to-day operations carry their own rules: a vendor must remove all waste and trash at the end of every day, and grease can never go into the sanitary sewer system, a tree pit, a sidewalk, a street or any other public space.

Class I trucks that cook on board must submit to a Tamarac Fire Department inspection before their first permit and every six months after, and every vendor must display the City-issued mobile food vendor permit in a visible spot on the truck at all times.