Yucaipa, CA Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)

Chapter 5.16 defines a vendor as any person who sells or offers to sell any goods, food or beverages within a special event venue. An activity that involves the sale of merchandise, food or beverages where not already permitted by city code is a special event whether it is run by a for-profit or nonprofit organization, so a street fair with sales needs a permit. The organizer applies to the community services department not fewer than ninety days before the event and, if food vendors are planned, attaches a copy of the County of San Bernardino Department of Environmental Health temporary food facility permit under Section 5.16.060.

The permit holder sets the vendor terms inside the venue but cannot hand out greater rights or privileges than the permit itself grants. Other vendor rules bend around the event permit. A sidewalk vendor working in connection with a city-permitted special event is covered by the special event permit under Section 5.12.080, and a food truck operating as part of a city-approved special event is exempt from the itinerant vendor permit if it follows every condition of the event permit under Section 5.13.080. Sidewalk vendors without that authority cannot vend in the immediate vicinity of an area designated for a special event permit for the length of the event under Section 5.12.100.

Standard conditions shape the vendor layout: tents, canopies and stages over four hundred square feet need a permit and fire department inspection, a twenty foot wide fire lane stays open, and trash and recycling receptacles are provided at a minimum of one per one hundred attendees. Amplified sound is limited to 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Section 5.16.120 states that the event permit does not relieve anyone of any other permit or license required by the code or other law.