Noblesville, IN Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Section 159.128(B) sets the location rules for mobile food vending. On private property, a vendor cannot operate without first getting the property owner's written consent, and the property owner is barred from allowing a mobile food vehicle to park there until that permit-holder consent is in place. In the public right-of-way and parking areas, vehicles must comply with all parking rules and cannot interfere with or obstruct pedestrians or vehicles on a street, sidewalk, road, or parking lot drive aisle, and cannot park within twenty feet of any intersection.

The section also draws an exclusion zone around competing food service: mobile food vehicles must generally operate at least 1,000 feet from any permitted special event location and from the Farmer's Market location, and a standard mobile food vehicle permit does not authorize vending inside that buffer. Vendors can still work an excluded event or location, but only by a separate route: they need a vendor agreement with the event coordinator for events on public property, or a signed agreement with the Noblesville Parks Board for events on Parks property, and even then the available space may be limited at the discretion of the event organizers. Signage for the truck itself is confined to the vehicle; Section 159.128(B)(12) bars any separate freestanding sign wherever the truck is vending.