Marysville, WA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Section 22C.260.040 lists the areas where mobile food vending is off limits: any residential zone and the rights-of-way abutting it, all other city rights-of-way, private streets, and parking areas unless the applicant proves the site still meets its minimum off-street parking requirement. The city can waive the residential-zone, city-right-of-way, or private-street ban only for a unit approved as part of a special event permit under Chapter 5.46 MMC, or for a unit sited on city-owned property under a city contract or special event permit tied to § 22C.260.050.

Where vending is allowed, on private property in commercial, industrial, recreation and public institutional zones, subsection (4) adds site standards: a vendor may set up one portable pop-up tent no larger than 120 square feet, or up to three tables with beach-type umbrellas, but no cooking may happen under the tent, and umbrellas and canopies must come down at the end of each day. The unit cannot cut into the off-street parking required for another use on the site, must sit back from the property line at the standard front setback for its zoning district, and any temporary signage tied to the unit is capped at 10 square feet. The 100-foot separation from an existing eating and drinking place is measured along the shortest straight line between the closest edges of the two, and it disappears only with the restaurant owner's written permission to locate closer.