Sussex County, DE Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

' That window and the one-stand-per-parcel cap define where and when mobile food vending is a by-right use: business-zoned land, in season, one truck at a time, and the stand cannot be wider than eight feet six inches or longer than 45 feet, permanently affixed, or connected to utilities. Outside those bounds, the code does not simply prohibit the use; § 115-72C creates a fallback path. It covers 'any temporary removable vendor stand for the sale of food, agricultural products or other food-related goods that is not a permitted use under the provisions of § 115-69,' letting an operator apply for a Board of Adjustment special use exception instead, still conditioned on a current Delaware business license and the same county vendor stand sticker.

The identical seasonal, business-district framework repeats in the parallel permitted-use sections for the B-2 and B-3 Districts, so mobile food vending as a matter of right stays confined to the county's commercial-zoned land, not residential or agricultural districts, where a vendor stand would instead need the special use exception route or would not be authorized at all.