Caddo Parish, LA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

UDC Sec. 6.2.D opens by stating its purpose: allowing food truck vendors to operate within Caddo Parish on private property and Parish-owned property for a limited period of time, rather than as a permanent fixture of a lot. That location flexibility comes with hard limits. Vendors must park on an improved surface, meaning a paved or otherwise built-up surface rather than bare dirt or grass, which keeps trucks off unimproved lots and rights-of-way shoulders. A truck cannot set up on private property or a vacant lot at all unless the property owner has granted written permission, so a vendor cannot simply claim an empty commercial pad without documentation the Parish can check.

Fire lanes are off-limits entirely: no food truck vendor may operate within a fire lane under any circumstance, protecting emergency access regardless of how a site is otherwise zoned. The Table 5-1 use table further channels food truck vendors by district, generally allowing them as a permitted use in the Parish's commercial, mixed-use, and industrial districts rather than in residential zones, while food truck parks accommodating two to four vendors are permitted in similar non-residential districts and parks of five or more vendors need special-use approval in most of those same districts.

Every vendor, wherever it locates, still needs the underlying food truck vendor's license and a temporary use permit described in the same section, and daily removal from the site is required unless the operator has separate temporary use permit approval to stay in place.