Mobile Food Vending Parking Requirements

A licensed Mobile Vending/Food Truck may move through the public streets of San Antonio or County and distribute the foods that the license allows. Listed below are additional parking and other restrictions on your unit:

• Parking a mobile vending unit on private property is permitted with written, notarized, permission from the owner and toilet facilities are available and convenient.
• The property must be commercially zoned and you must move the unit daily. When you are parked on a commercial property, you may not vend within 300 feet of any licensed food establishment in any direction unless you have written, notarized permission to do so from all food license holders. Failure to receive permission from any food license holder will deny you permission to vend from that location, even if you have the location owner's permission.
• You may not vend from the mobile vending unit within 300 feet of elementary, middle or high school grounds from 1 hour before school starts, during the time school is in session, and not vend until 1 hour after school is out. All food vending from a mobile food vending unit must be done ON THE VEHICLE. It is not permitted to remove food items from the vehicle to sell from a table under a free standing canopy. Mobile food vendors that sell whole, uncut produce are exempt from this rule.
• Parking your mobile vending unit is prohibited within 50 feet of an intersection.
• Pushcarts may not be operated in the street.
• Mobile vending units may not be operated in the 'Downtown Business District' unless you have a special permit issued by the Downtown Operations Department. Their phone number is 210.207.3677.
• If you were required to have a commissary, you are to return the unit to that location every day you operate for servicing and cleaning.

Mobile food vending inspections are conducted Tuesdays and Thursdays only from 8:00 AM-10:00 AM.  An appointment is required for inspections. Please call (210) 207-0135 to schedule an inspection appointment.

Inspections are done at the Claude Black Community Center located at 2805 E Commerce San Antonio, Tx 78202.

View a checklist for Mobile Vending requirements here. A packet regarding information on mobile units can be picked up at Development Services located at 1901 S. Alamo San Antonio, Texas 78204.