Kissimmee, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Allowed districts
- B-3, HC, IB only
- Anchor parcel
- 50,000+ sq ft single retailer
- Booths per parcel
- One vendor booth
- Fire/loading buffer
- 25 ft from hydrants, loading zones
- Entrance buffer
- 15 ft from entrances/exits
- Vacant lots
- Vending prohibited outright
Summary
Kissimmee confines mobile food vending to the B-3, HC and IB zoning districts, and only on parcels anchored by a retail store of at least 50,000 square feet, per Land Development Code § 14-6-8 preamble and A.1. Within an approved site, subsection B bars vendors from operating on a vacant lot and sets buffers from loading zones, entrances, fire hydrants, accessible parking and required setbacks.
Itinerant food vendors are authorized in the B-3, HC, IB zoning districts and shall be in accordance with the following standards: A.1.There shall be only one vendor booth or conveyance per parcel, location or development. Itinerant food vendors shall be limited to those parcels containing a retail store with a minimum gross floor area of 50,000 square feet. This minimum area shall apply to a single retailer and shall not be construed to apply to a multi-tenant center with the same square footage....B.Location of outdoor vendors. No outdoor vendor shall be permitted to operate in any of the following areas:1.Within 25 feet of any loading zone or bus stop.2.Within 15 feet of a building entrance or exit.3.Against windows of a business.4.Within 25 feet of any fire hydrant, fire escape or fire control device.5.Within 25 feet of any parking space or access ramp designated for persons with disabilities.6.Within the required building setbacks of the zoning district.7.Within required parking spaces or landscape areas.8.On a vacant lot or property.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 5).
Full Breakdown
1 narrows the field further: a parcel must contain "a retail store with a minimum gross floor area of 50,000 square feet," a threshold written to apply "to a single retailer" and not to "a multi-tenant center with the same square footage," so a strip mall made up of smaller stores does not qualify no matter its combined size. Only one vendor booth or conveyance is allowed per parcel, location or development. " That last item forecloses the common instinct to treat an empty commercial lot as an easy vending spot: under Kissimmee's code it is off-limits outright, permit or no permit.
Violations & Fines
Vending outside the B-3, HC or IB districts, on a parcel that does not meet the 50,000-square-foot retail threshold, or within any of the eight buffer zones in § 14-6-8.B is a Land Development Code violation. Appeals of a director's siting determination go to the board of adjustment under § 14-3-2.A, and uncorrected violations move to the code enforcement special magistrate under § 14-3-5.
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Sources & Official References
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