Pleasanton, CA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

36, Stopping, Standing and Parking. Subsection A bars operating or parking any vehicle on a street or city-owned parking lot in a way that obstructs or interferes with its free use. Subsection B applies that same obstruction standard specifically to a vehicle, wagon or pushcart from which goods, wares, merchandise, fruits, vegetables or foodstuffs are sold, displayed, solicited, offered for sale, bartered or exchanged, including a lunch wagon or eating car, on any portion of a street, if it obstructs the street's free use or creates a traffic hazard.

Subsection C goes further for park property: notwithstanding subsection A, no person may stop or park a food-, produce-, or merchandise-selling vehicle within any city park facility, naming a sports park as an example, without a permit from the director of parks and community services. 38), which regulates pushcart and non-motorized vendors on sidewalks under a police-chief-issued permit rather than motorized food trucks on streets. Read together, a mobile food vendor operating a truck in Pleasanton may use city streets as long as it does not obstruct traffic or block the street's normal use, but it cannot vend from a stopped or parked vehicle inside any city park facility, such as the sports park complex on Case Avenue, without first obtaining a parks and community services permit.