Cocoa, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Appendix A, article XIII, section 32(D) of Cocoa's zoning code lists the specific zoning districts where accessory mobile vending sales are allowed on private property, each conditioned on the property owner first obtaining a site plan under subsection (G). Vending by appointment at a customer's home or business is allowed in every zoning district. For a vendor to set up on a property as an accessory use, the property must be zoned commercial (C-N Neighborhood Commercial, C-G General Commercial, C-W Wholesale Commercial, or C-P Commercial Parkway), industrial (M-1 or M-2), institutional (INST), or a commercial or mixed-use Planned Unit Development.

Core Commercial (C-C) zoned property may also host accessory mobile vending under a site plan, but with an added restriction: during a city-approved public special event on that property, the vendor must be contractually affiliated with the event, not simply present on its own. Residentially zoned property may host a mobile vendor under a site plan only if the property's principal use is not itself residential, such as a church or school site. The code draws a hard line downtown: accessory mobile vending sales uses are specifically prohibited in the Central Business District (CBD) and the CBD/Cocoa Village Overlay (CBD/CVO), and the city will not issue a site plan authorizing one there.

That prohibition does not block a mobile vendor from taking part in a permitted special event held within the CBD or CBD/CVO; it only forecloses an ongoing, site-plan-based vending operation in those two downtown districts.