Martin County, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

b of the Martin County Land Development Regulations sets the only permitted location for a mobile food dispensing vehicle or itinerant merchant: the vehicle or vendor must be located at an existing legally operating commercial business in which retail sales are a permitted use. a: a commercial site with ingress, egress and on-site parking, a place of worship, or a community center. 1's threshold requirements: the property owner must give written permission to use the site, the site must provide at least one parking space for the vendor and two for customers, and the vendor must supply portable toilets, or rely on toilets in a camper or recreational vehicle, with portable toilets allowed for temporary seasonal sales on vacant lots.

1 then closes off public land entirely: itinerant merchants, mobile food dispensing vehicles and seasonal sales cannot locate on county-owned land or county road right-of-way unless the County Administrator specifically authorizes it. 2 separately bars any of these vendors from selling, trading, giving away or otherwise exchanging live animals. Because the location rule ties vending rights to an already-approved commercial use, a food truck cannot set up on an empty lot, in a residential driveway, or in an unimproved field even with the landowner's blessing; the host site itself must already be a legally operating retail business.