Palm Beach County
Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department, Zoning Division
In short
Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department, Zoning Division issues 4 permits we publish for Palm Beach County, last verified 2026-09-28. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcohol Beverage Zoning Compliance Layeronly if it applies to you | Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department, Zoning Division | No fee | reviewed each time a Certificate of Use is sought for an alcohol-related use; no independent renewal cycle | 2026-09-28 |
| Mobile Food Vendor Zoning / Roadside Vendor Sitingonly if it applies to you | Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department, Zoning Division | Siting for a fixed or commissary location is reviewed by PZB Zoning as part of its Certificate of Use process; vending on a county road right-of-way is reviewed separately by Engineering & Public Works' Traffic Roadside Vendor Program. Each carries its own application rather than a single published flat fee specific to food trucks. | not stated as a fixed period in the County's published vending and zoning sources cited here | 2026-09-28 |
| Food Truck Food-Safety Licensing — State Preemption Under Fla. Stat. §509.102 (Palm Beach County)only if it applies to you | Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department, Zoning Division | No fee | not applicable | 2026-09-28 |
| Certificate of Use / Zoning Approval | Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department, Zoning Division | Assessed by PZB Zoning according to its published fee schedule, which varies by application type (new business, change of use, home occupation) rather than a single flat charge for every applicant. | no periodic renewal identified; a new Certificate of Use is required on a change of use, tenant, or business activity at the address | 2026-09-28 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Alcohol Beverage Zoning Compliance Layer
A restaurant, coffee shop or retail store proposing beer, wine or package alcohol sales in UNINCORPORATED Palm Beach County must clear PBC Code Chapter 3's location-based zoning standards, reviewed as part of the Certificate of Use application (see the separate Certificate of Use record), before it can proceed with a separate state ABT license application from Florida DBPR. Chapter 3 sets locational limits relative to sensitive uses such as schools, churches and residential areas, but its exact current footage requirements are not reproduced in the sources cited here, so no distance figure is published — confirm the current locational standard directly with PZB Zoning before selecting or leasing a site for an alcohol-related use. There is no separate fee for this zoning review beyond the underlying Certificate of Use fee already recorded in that permit's own record. Each of the county's 39 municipalities regulates alcohol zoning within its own limits instead of PBC Code Chapter 3 — for example, the City of West Palm Beach applies its own Chapter 6.
Mobile Food Vendor Zoning / Roadside Vendor Siting
A food truck operating from a fixed lot or commissary site in UNINCORPORATED Palm Beach County needs PZB Zoning siting approval as part of the Certificate of Use process; each municipality handles siting within its own limits instead. Vending from a county road right-of-way is a separate matter handled countywide by Engineering & Public Works' Traffic Roadside Vendor Program. PBC Parks & Recreation separately runs its own narrow Monthly Food Truck Vendor Permit specifically for vending at county parks, outside the scope of this general zoning/siting record. None of these programs touch food-safety licensing, which is a state function — see the separate record on the state preemption of local food-truck food-safety regulation.
Food Truck Food-Safety Licensing — State Preemption Under Fla. Stat. §509.102 (Palm Beach County)
Under Fla. Stat. §509.102, food-safety licensing of mobile food dispensing vehicles is preempted to the State of Florida: the statute states that 'A municipality, county, or other local governmental entity may not require a separate license, registration, or permit other than the license required under s. 509.241, or require the payment of any license, registration, or permit fee other than the fee required under s. 509.251' — both administered by Florida DBPR at the state layer. Under that statute there is no county food-safety fee for a food truck in Palm Beach County; the county-level requirements that remain are the zoning/siting and county-right-of-way vending rules listed as separate Palm Beach County records, which regulate where a truck may operate, not its food handling.
Certificate of Use / Zoning Approval
A business locating in UNINCORPORATED Palm Beach County needs a Certificate of Use from PZB Zoning confirming the use complies with the Unified Land Development Code, and it is generally obtained before or alongside LBTR issuance. Each of the county's 39 municipalities runs its own separate zoning-approval process instead of this one, so a business inside any incorporated city should contact that city, not PZB, for its equivalent. Most home-based businesses are exempt from needing a Certificate of Use, except home-based landscaping and storage operations, which still need one. This review is also where PBC Code Chapter 3's alcohol-beverage locational standards get checked for a restaurant, coffee shop or retail store proposing alcohol sales — see the separate Palm Beach County alcohol zoning record — and where a food truck's fixed vending site gets checked for zoning compliance.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Palm Beach County
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Code of Ordinances index, including Chapter 3 (Alcoholic Beverages) — Chapter 3's rendered text was not retrievable via automated fetch on two research passesMunicode / Palm Beach County · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
- Fla. Stat. Ch. 509, including §509.102 (state preemption of local mobile-food-vehicle regulation) and §§509.241/509.251 (state mobile food license and fee)Florida Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
- Municipal permit department directory, confirming the unincorporated-vs-municipal permitting splitPalm Beach County Property Appraiser · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
- Traffic Roadside Vendor Program — county right-of-way vendingPalm Beach County Engineering and Public Works · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
- Zoning applications and forms, including Certificate of UsePalm Beach County PZB Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
- Zoning process FAQPalm Beach County PZB Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
Other offices serving Palm Beach County
- Palm Beach County Constitutional Tax Collector, Local Business Tax Section
- Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department, Building Division
- Palm Beach County Public Safety Department, Animal Care and Control Division
- Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, sitting as the Child Care Facilities Board (delegated to the Child Care Advisory Council, staffed by Florida DOH-Palm Beach)
- Palm Beach County Environmental Resources Management
- Palm Beach County Construction Industry Licensing Board, Contractors Certification Division
- Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, Community Risk Reduction Division
- Palm Beach County Public Safety Department, Consumer Affairs Division
- Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department
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