Henry County, GA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Section 3-3-35(b)(3) confines portable eating establishments, defined in subsection (a) as any wheeled structure not set on a permanent foundation, to C-1, C-2 and C-3 zoning districts, and only when the unit operates as an accessory use tied to an existing business on the same site; a truck cannot set up in a residential district, an industrial district, or on vacant commercial land with no host business. Subsection (b)(5) layers on siting requirements within those approved zones: the unit must sit on a paved surface, positioned in front of the existing business or on its side, and must be plainly visible to passing traffic, with at least twenty feet of separation from any other structure.

Subsection (b)(6) adds a minimum ten-foot setback from any existing right-of-way and requires the unit to be located so it does not impede traffic flow or obscure the sightlines of oncoming motorists; the unit must also provide its own off-street parking. Electrical service for the unit must run from the existing business rather than a separate hookup (subsection (b)(7)), and no outside storage, including picnic tables, is permitted around the unit (subsection (b)(8)). The undercarriage of the unit must be completely skirted to conceal it (subsection (b)(11)).

Read together, these zone and siting rules mean a mobile food unit in unincorporated Henry County only ever appears as a fixed, accessory addition to an existing commercial site zoned C-1, C-2 or C-3, never as an independently sited or roaming vending operation.