Sheboygan, WI Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Section 78-101 applies to any mobile food vehicle within a public right-of-way or on public property in the City of Sheboygan, and subsection (b) sets the first buffer. No person shall park, stop or operate a mobile food vehicle, and no vendor shall permit anyone to do so, adjacent to or within a 100-foot radius of the nearest edge of any building or section of a building comprising a licensed food establishment whose kitchen is open for serving food to patrons. A patio, awning or temporary enclosure attached to the building is excluded from the measurement. The 100-foot requirement is waived if the vendor's most recent license application was submitted together with the written consent of the proprietor of the adjacent licensed food establishment.

Subsection (c) makes the distance enforceable on the street: every vendor must keep on the vehicle, at all times, a measuring wheel with a measuring capacity of no less than 500 feet, available to anyone working on the vehicle and to any police officer or other municipal official enforcing the article.

Subsection (f) adds an event buffer. No person shall park, stop or operate a mobile food vehicle within 500 feet of the boundary line of any property on which a fair, farmer's market, festival, carnival, circus, special event or civic event licensed or sanctioned by the city is occurring, except when the vendor has obtained a permit or otherwise properly obtained permission to do so.

Other location rules follow the same section. Subsection (d) requires vendors to follow all parking and traffic laws, and a vehicle long enough to occupy all or part of two marked parking spaces can use both if it observes every other parking restriction, including feeding both parking meters. Subsection (h) says the article does not supersede or repeal any ordinance on noise, park closing hours or parking, so the park hours in Sec. 74-41 still apply to a vendor inside a city park.