St. Tammany Parish, LA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Sec. 400-3.2.A.3 places mobile food trucks on the NC-1 Neighborhood Office District's list of permitted temporary uses, but only "subject to development plan review by the Department of Planning and Development in accordance with Chapter 200, Sec. 200-3.5." That same temporary-use category, and the same development-plan-review condition, repeats across the parish's other commercial zoning districts: Sec. 400-3.3 lists mobile food trucks for the GC-1 and GC-2 General Commercial Districts, Sec. 400-3.4 lists them for the PBC Planned Business Campus District, and Sec. 400-3.5 lists them for the HC-1 through HC-4 Highway Commercial Districts, where they appear alongside Christmas tree sales, firework sales, and seasonal produce or seafood stands.

Because the use is temporary and reviewable rather than an outright permitted use, a vendor cannot simply set up in any of these zones; the property owner or operator has to submit a development plan for Planning and Development's review before the truck can operate. Once sited, the truck still has to meet the separate operating standards in Sec. 400-8.BB, including staying on private property outside any setback, sight triangle, buffer, or public right-of-way, holding an annual permit, and capping its stay on any one site at 12 hours. Residential and rural zoning districts are not on any of these temporary-use lists, so a food truck has no zoning path to operate there.