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Mobile Vending
Mobile vendors and service providers are self-contained vehicles or trailers used in a variety of different applications such as food trucks, mobile medical care, or mobile pet grooming. These uses are temporary rather than permanent businesses and permitted by the City of Golden Valley to operate within city limits
Note: New process for Mobile Vending Permitting have gone into effect. See below for details.
Event Permit: To be filled out by any owner/operator of a mobile vending unit or by the business hosting the event.
- $50 in a City park
- All mobile food vendors need to be inspected by the Golden Valley Fire Department. For inspection details please contact the fire department at 763-593-8057 or at fire@goldenvalleymn.gov.
- Applications must be submitted at least two weeks prior to the event date.
- If you do not pass the inspection, you will not receive a permit to operate.
- The vendor must comply with all City Code parking, signage, lighting, and noise regulations.
- The vendor must provide trash receptacles for customer use and keep the site in a neat and orderly fashion. Vendors are responsible for clean-up and trash removal generated from their operation in the immediate area.
- Vendors in City parks or in public right-of-way will be assessed for all damages or extra trash clean-up generated by their operation (if required).
Location
- All vendors operating on City property (parks) or in public right-of-way must provide an insurance rider listing the City of Golden Valley as an additional insured on the policy for the permitted dates of operation. Parks available for permits include Brookview, Gearty, Hampshire, Lakeview, Lions, Medley, Scheid, and Wesley.
Applications must be submitted at least two weeks prior to the event date.
- To apply to operate in a City of Golden Valley Park, please reach out to the Parks and Rec Department:
parkandrec@goldenvalleymn.gov
Phone: 763-512-2345 - To schedule a required fire inspection, please contact the Golden Valley Fire Department:
fire@goldenvalleymn.gov
Phone: 763-593-8057
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Planning Division
Physical Address
7800 Golden Valley Road
Golden Valley, MN 55427
Phone: 763-593-8095Fax: 763-593-8109
TTY: 763-593-3968
Office Hours
Monday through Friday
8 am to 4:30 pm