Gulfport, MS Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Appendix A, Sec. IV(A)(9) sets the map of where a mobile food vendor can legally sell in Gulfport. By-right sales from an equipped vehicle are permitted in the B-1 and B-2 business districts, the I-1 and I-2 industrial districts, and the T-5 and T-6 SmartCode urban-center transect zones, all commercial or high-intensity zones where the city expects retail-style foot traffic. Outside those districts, the ordinance carves out a narrow construction-site exception: vending is allowed in the R-1, R-2, R-B, and R-O conventional residential districts and the T-3, T4L, and T4+ SmartCode zones only at active construction sites, and only for the duration of that specific project.

That means a taco truck cannot post up on a residential street corner or in a low-intensity transect zone to serve the general public; it can only serve a construction crew at the site where work is underway, and it must leave once the project wraps. Because Gulfport runs both a conventional Euclidean zoning map (Appendix A) and a SmartCode transect map (Appendix D) that can apply to the same geography with different vocabulary, a vendor working near a transect-zoned redevelopment area should confirm which map governs the parcel; Sec.

IV(A)(9) is written to name specific T-zones directly rather than deferring the question, so the transect labels are enforceable district identifiers, not references requiring separate SmartCode district lookups for this rule.