Tucson, AZ Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)

City Code § 7-26 defines a 'peddler' to include anyone selling merchandise or food from a temporary fixed location by motor vehicle, towed vehicle, pushcart, or other removable apparatus, distinct from vendors already approved under the Unified Development Code. Section 7-30 then sets the distance rules every such cart or stand must meet, shown on the site plan required under § 7-27(b)(5)-(6): a peddler operation may not locate within 100 feet of a residentially zoned property, within 100 feet of another peddler operation on the same tax parcel, or within 100 feet of another peddler operation on city property or the right-of-way (except at the pilot location at Silverbell Road and El Camino del Cerro).

2(a)(1)-(2). Section 7-29 layers on operating rules for the cart itself: it must be removed from the site after closing each day along with all equipment, may only advertise on the vehicle itself, must keep the site clean with a trash receptacle, and generally can't run in the right-of-way at all except with department of transportation approval in the Downtown, Fourth Avenue, or Silverbell pilot zones. closed hours within 100-200 feet of housing needs a public hearing before the zoning examiner under § 7-31.