Newton County, GA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Sec. 12-162(c) bars a mobile food vendor from conducting business of any kind on public streets or in the public right-of-way except as part of a county-sponsored or special event permit, so a truck cannot simply park on a road shoulder to sell. Subsection (d) limits normal operation to the parking areas of privately owned, non-residential property, though a vendor may set up on privately owned residential property for a small private gathering or nonprofit event that makes no use of public property besides lawful parking, and only if the lot is at least five acres, with just one vendor allowed per private event.

Subsection (g) sets minimum spacing: no vendor may sit within 150 linear feet of the property line of a lot holding a single-family home or townhouse without a special event permit, or within 500 linear feet of a restaurant entrance, or within 15 linear feet of a street intersection, crosswalk, driveway, fire hydrant, alley, handicapped space, or building entrance, and vendors must stay 100 feet from gas pumps, underground fuel tanks, and vent pipes. , and vehicles cannot sit unattended or stored at the vending site during those hours; every truck must return to its base of operation when not in use. Subsection (i) caps the count at two vendors per property, or five on a non-residential lot, absent a county-sponsored event.