Placer County, CA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

160(E), part of the outdoor retail sales chapter that applies wherever outdoor retail sales are allowed under the applicable zone's land use and permit tables. Subsection E is direct: sales from vehicles, whether parked on private property or within a public road right-of-way, are prohibited across unincorporated Placer County except in two situations, an approved farmers' market, or when a specific minor use permit authorizes the vehicle sales. 160(D) to the sale of food and farm produce items, including raw and prepared foodstuffs, plants, and cut flowers, from parked vehicles, and it requires its own minor use permit; a market cannot operate on the same site more than three days per week unless the land use permit specifically authorizes a longer run.

160(B) layer on top of any vehicle sales activity: sales are limited to daylight hours with all facilities, signs, and vehicles removed from the site at the close of daily business (night operation needs its own minor use permit authorization), no dedicated parking is required as long as customer and employee parking stays on-site and outside public rights-of-way, and food sales must also comply with Health and Safety Code § 113705 and applicable Placer County health department and agricultural commissioner rules. 330 lists a self-contained mobile food facility (food truck) as one of several acceptable ways to provide food service at a tasting room event.