Yuma, AZ Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Street right-of-way buffer
- 20 feet
- Freeway ramp / school buffer
- 300 feet
- Residential property buffer
- 125 feet
- Competing restaurant entrance buffer
- 150 feet
- Required customer parking
- 3 paved spaces minimum
- Second vendor on same site
- needs Hearing Officer conditional use permit
Summary
Yuma restricts where a food truck can park on private property: never within 20 feet of a street right-of-way, 300 feet of a freeway ramp or school, 125 feet of a home, or 150 feet of a competing restaurant's front door. The rule sits inside the mobile food vending zoning ordinance, not the sidewalk vending ban.
(e) Food vending units shall not be located within: 1. 20 feet of any street right-of-way; 2. Any visibility triangle; 3. 300 feet of the beginning of a freeway entrance ramp and the ending of a freeway exit ramp; 4. 125 feet of a residentially zoned property or residential use; 5. 150 feet of a customer entrance of a business that has a primary use classified as restaurant; or 6. 300 feet of any school property. ... (h) Only one mobile food vendor is allowed to operate one food vending unit at a mobile vending site. A conditional use permit, heard and decided by the Hearing Officer, is required for more than one mobile food vendor or food vending unit to locate at a mobile vending site.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-74: Current through May 20, 2026).
Full Breakdown
13(A)(1) governs mobile food vending on private property. Food vending units must operate only on paved surfaces, outside required retention areas, and can't block drive aisles or required parking. Each site must keep at least three paved customer parking spaces on top of what's needed for any concurrent existing business. Beyond those site rules, subsection (e) sets a specific location buffer: no vending unit within 20 feet of a street right-of-way, within any visibility triangle, within 300 feet of a freeway entrance or exit ramp, within 125 feet of a residentially zoned property or use, within 150 feet of a restaurant's customer entrance, or within 300 feet of any school property.
Only one vendor may operate one food vending unit at a given site; putting a second vendor or unit on the same lot requires a conditional use permit heard and decided by the Hearing Officer under subsection (h). 07.
Violations & Fines
Siting a food vending unit inside a prohibited buffer, or stacking a second vendor on a lot without the required conditional use permit, is a zoning violation under §154-999, a class 1 misdemeanor punishable by a fine up to $1,000, up to ten days' imprisonment, or both, with each day counted separately.
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