Acworth, GA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

4 lists 'mobile food vendor' as a temporary use marked 'T' in every zoning district, R-1 through HI, meaning it is permitted for a limited period subject to supplemental regulations rather than as a standalone principal use. 1, titled Mobile Food Vendor (Food Truck), and they apply to any mobile food vendor soliciting the general public. Operators must own or lease a commissary kitchen inside Acworth's corporate limits as their base of operation. Density is capped at one mobile food vendor per 20,000 square feet of land area (or fraction of it) on any site where a vendor operates, and vendors must sit at least 500 feet from the main entrance of any eating or drinking establishment and at least 500 feet from any outdoor dining area serving a non-mobile competitor.

Operators are responsible for disposing of waste per city regulations and keeping the vending and customer area clean. To secure the permit, an occupational tax certificate application must include written approval from the property owner, a site plan showing a working restroom within 200 feet with a written restroom-access agreement, a site plan of proposed equipment such as signage and tables, and proof of the required in-city commissary kitchen. This zoning framework sits alongside, and does not replace, the separate business license and public-right-of-way restrictions in Code chapter 22.