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

Section 4-2V-8, enacted by Ordinance 17-29 on May 24, 2017, sets ten lettered conditions that every mobile food truck vending from the public right-of-way must follow, and states up front that failure to comply may result in suspension or revocation of the operator's business license and is a Class B misdemeanor. Subsection E is the sidewalk rule: the truck must use positive action to assure its use of the right-of-way, including the sidewalk, in no way interferes with or limits sidewalk users' free and unobstructed passage.

That sits alongside related right-of-way conditions in the same section: parking only in parallel spaces without blocking driveways (subsection C), a vending window that faces away from the street unless the Transportation Division approves rear service (subsection D), a ban on selling to anyone standing in the roadway without Transportation Division approval (subsection F), and a prohibition on parking in any park strip or landscaped area (subsection B). Section 4-2V-9F reinforces the sidewalk protection at the design level: canopy extensions or enclosures on the truck must be integrated into the vehicle and must not project onto the public sidewalk or any other part of the right-of-way without Transportation Division authorization.

Together these sections mean a truck cannot narrow, block or otherwise obstruct the path pedestrians use to pass the vending location, regardless of how the truck is parked or how its service window is oriented.