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

The City of Kenner zones mobile food vending narrowly. Under UDC Section 6.10(b), General Commercial (C-2) is the only zoning district that lists Food Truck Park as an available use, and even there it is a conditional use, not permitted by right, so it is unavailable in the Neighborhood Commercial (C-1) district, any residential district, or the industrial and special districts covered elsewhere in Article VI. Section 6.10(b)(3)(j) requires the site to have a minimum area of 20,000 square feet, and limits the number of food truck vendor spaces to one per 1,000 square feet of lot space, with a hard ceiling of 20 spaces and a floor of 5 spaces, so a truck park cannot be built as a single-vendor lot or scaled up without limit.

The zoning restriction reflects Kenner's broader C-2 purpose statement in Section 6.10(b)(1), which channels larger-scale retail and service uses to major streets and street intersections rather than allowing strip development, and keeps intensive uses like truck parks out of the smaller-scale C-1 Neighborhood Commercial district that is meant to serve nearby low-density residential neighborhoods. Because the use requires Section 6.03(g) conditional use review, the City Council can also attach site-specific conditions, such as landscaping, buffering, or hours of operation, before approving a particular C-2 parcel for a truck park.