Warren, MI Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

' That scope excludes major arterial roads and commercial thoroughfares from the article's coverage; a vendor operating outside residential streets and half-mile roads falls outside this article's licensing and equipment scheme entirely. Within the streets the article does cover, § 24-56 makes it unlawful to sell or offer for sale any food or other product from an ice cream vending vehicle unless the vehicle is legally parked, and further unlawful to sell from anywhere but the curb side of that legally parked vehicle. Read together with the flashing-light and stopping rules of §§ 24-54 and 24-55, the ordinance builds a school-bus-style stop-and-caution zone around a parked ice cream truck: the vehicle must display alternately flashing amber lights to signal a vending stop, oncoming traffic must come to a complete stop before proceeding with caution, and sales can occur only curb side while the truck is properly and legally parked, never from double-parked positions, from the street side of the vehicle, or while the vehicle is moving.

Because the article does not define a citywide vending 'zone' map or a list of approved streets by name, vendors and enforcement officers instead apply the residential street/half-mile-road test of § 24-52 case by case to determine coverage.