Wellington, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Wellington's zoning code defines a mobile vendor in LDR § 3.2.2 as a business that has no permanent location, stays at one location for more than two hours, and is removed from that temporary location every night. The land-use standard for the use, LDR § 6.2.2.D.2, sets four siting rules. First, a mobile vendor cannot sit in any required parking space, right-of-way, landscape buffer, driveway aisle or loading area, and cannot interfere with on-site traffic circulation. Second, it cannot be positioned so that it distracts drivers or causes vehicles to stop, stand or park in violation of an official traffic-control device, a rule aimed at vendors that set up near intersections or driveway entrances.

Third, only one mobile vendor is allowed on a property at a time, so a shopping center cannot host a lineup of food trucks under this standard alone. Fourth, the vendor must be removed from the site every night, meaning no mobile vendor can function as a permanent fixture or store equipment on the lot after hours. Because the standard sits inside the district-by-district use table at Sec. 6.2.2, whether a mobile vendor is permitted, conditional, or prohibited outright still depends on the zoning district; the D.2 standard only governs where and how a vendor may operate once the use itself is allowed there.