West Palm Beach, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Sec. 94-109 of Chapter 94 (Article IV, Downtown Master Plan Urban Regulations) sets the standards for a zoning category called "temporary public open space," a privately owned, ground-floor open area abutting a public street that the public may access from the sidewalk or right-of-way. " Item 5 otherwise bars using a temporary public open space for parking, but carves out an exception: access may be allowed for food trucks or other service vehicles. Item 6 then sets the buffer: a food truck or other service vehicle shall not be parked less than 30 feet from any property line adjacent to a BPD-R district or a property occupied with a residential use.

The same section also requires the open space to meet ADA access standards, provide at least 30 percent tree canopy and 25 percent vegetated area (reducible to 10 percent canopy if required street trees are planted along the frontage), and furnish one linear foot of seating for every 250 square feet of open space. Outside these downtown temporary public open spaces, the city's separate peddler ordinance (Chapter 22, Article VI, Sec. 22-253) independently bars any peddler, a term that reaches mobile food vendors, from working the downtown area's public streets and sidewalks at all unless the vendor is at the Green Market, working a permitted special event, or operating under a franchise agreement with the city.