Orangeburg County, SC Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

9 of the county's Zoning Ordinance (Appendix A) lists five standing requirements for any vending operation permitted under Table 1. Vending sites cannot be located closer than 20 feet to the nearest street right-of-way and must supply at least two off-street parking spaces of their own. Density is capped at one vendor per 100 feet of street frontage, and a vending operation can never occupy or block access to a parking stall a neighboring use is required to provide. Every vendor has to clear the site each night: merchandise, vehicles, structures and signage cannot be left out past sundown, and goods can never be stored in or sold out of a tractor-trailer.

Signage is capped separately at one sign per vendor, regardless of where it is mounted, not to exceed ten square feet, and it still has to satisfy the general sign standards of Article 5; the ordinance treats advertising painted or attached to a vendor's own vehicle as a sign for this purpose. 3) confines where vending can even be sited: it is a conditional use only in the CN, CG, FA and RC districts, and it is barred outright, marked "N," in the RS, RG, RO and BI districts, so a truck cannot set up in most residential or light-industrial land in the unincorporated county. Because vending is conditional rather than by-right, the Community Development/Planning Department reviews each site plan against these standards before issuing zoning approval.