Fountain, CO Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Restaurant setback
- 150 feet from an existing restaurant
- Other-vendor setback
- 200 feet on public right-of-way
- Private-property cap
- 4 mobile food vehicles per property
- Operating hours
- 6:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m.
- Time limit per location
- 6 hours maximum
Summary
Fountain restricts where and when mobile food vendors can operate: Fountain Municipal Code § 5.17.050 keeps trucks and carts 150 feet from any existing restaurant and 200 feet from another mobile food vendor, caps public-right-of-way sales at four vehicles per private property, and limits hours to 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., six hours per location.
A.Mobile pushcarts and mobile food preparation vehicles are authorized to conduct business on public property and, where authorized, on private property with an additional temporary use permit. ... 1.Mobile pushcarts and mobile food preparation vehicles must be located:a.One hundred and fifty feet from any existing restaurant except as provided in section 5.17.040(I) above.b.Two hundred feet from any other mobile food vendor vehicle with regard to public right-of-way sales, no more than four mobile food vehicles per private property.2.A mobile food vendor operating in all districts shall operate between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. and will not exceed operating at any one approved location for more than six hours at a time.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 3).
Full Breakdown
050 of the Fountain Municipal Code sets the geographic and time limits for mobile food vending citywide. and to otherwise maintain lawful control over all public ways of the city,' with police and fire holding concurrent authority. 040(I), and 'two hundred feet from any other mobile food vendor vehicle with regard to public right-of-way sales,' with no more than four mobile food vehicles allowed on a single private property. 050(C)(2)). A vendor denied a location may appeal to city council at a regularly scheduled meeting.
These distance and hour rules apply everywhere inside Fountain; they say nothing about, and have no effect on, mobile vending in unincorporated El Paso County or in Colorado Springs.
Violations & Fines
Violating the § 5.17.050 distance or hours limits is enforced the same way as any other chapter 5.17 violation: a first offense draws a fine up to $150.00, a second within a year up to $250.00, and a third or later up to $500.00 under § 5.17.070, each a misdemeanor, with revocation of the vending permit or business license also available.
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