Medford, OR Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Allowed pod zones
- C-S/P, C-N, C-H, C-C, C-R, I-L, I-G, P-1
- Daily pod max stay
- 5 consecutive days
- Right-of-way vending hours
- 9:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m.
- Right-of-way vending streets
- 7 named Central Business overlay segments
- Vending fee period
- Every 90 days
Summary
Medford confines mobile food vendor pods to commercial and industrial zones, C-S/P, C-N, C-H, C-C, C-R, I-L, I-G and Public Parks, on paved private property. Right-of-way vending is limited to seven named downtown streets between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m.
Allowed Zoning Districts. Mobile food vendor pods are permitted in the following zoning districts: Commercial – Service/Professional (C-S/P), Neighborhood Commercial (C-N), Heavy Commercial (C-H), Community Commercial (C-C), Regional Commercial (C-R), Light-Industrial (I-L), General Industrial (I-G), and Public Parks (P-1)... Vending only occurs during the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. daily.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 2026-32, passed May 6, 2026).
Full Breakdown
829A governs temporary mobile food vendors and mobile food vendor pods on private property, splitting them into Daily Pods, allowed up to five consecutive days at a time, and Semi-Permanent Pods for stays exceeding 24 hours that may include seating areas and utility hookups. Subsection (3) restricts pods to the Commercial Service/Professional, Neighborhood Commercial, Heavy Commercial, Community Commercial, Regional Commercial, Light-Industrial, General Industrial, and Public Parks zoning districts, all on a paved surface. Daily pods are approved administratively by the Planning Director as a Type I ministerial decision; semi-permanent pods need Type III quasi-judicial approval from the Site Plan and Architectural Commission, or the Landmarks and Historic Preservation Commission inside a historic district.
Vendors must stay 10 feet from parked vehicles, combustible materials and other food vendors, cannot block pedestrian walkways, fire lanes, vision-clearance triangles or ADA sidewalk clearance, and daily-pod outdoor equipment is capped at 100 square feet downtown or 170 square feet elsewhere. 829B permits nighttime vending in on-street parking stalls within the Central Business overlay, but only on seven named street segments: Eighth Street, Main Street and Sixth Street between Oakdale and Riverside/Hawthorne, Central Avenue and Front Street between Fourth and Tenth, Bartlett Street between Fourth and Ninth, and the Evergreen Street parking lot.
, the unit may occupy more than one parking stall, and operators must pay an on-street vending fee under the Council-adopted fee schedule for every 90 days of operation, in addition to a City business license and County health permit. 829B constitutes a separate offense for each day it continues.
Violations & Fines
Violations of the right-of-way vending standards in Section 10.829B are enforced day-by-day, with each day of noncompliance treated as a separate violation; pod vendors on private property who exceed the five-day daily-pod limit or operate outside an approved zoning district are subject to code enforcement action and permit revocation by the Planning Department.
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